Find bibliographic data/metadata for books available in Canada:
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- Bibliographic Data Services
- ONIX Web Service - Returns a full ONIX record for specified EANs.
- BiblioSimple Web Service - Returns a 'thinner' version of the ONIX record.
- Image Web Services
- Cover - Returns either a thumbnail version of the cover or the full-size image, as provided.
- Back - Returns either a thumbnail version of the back cover or the full-size image, as provided.
- Interior - Returns either a thumbnail version of interior images or the full-size image.
- Author - Returns either a thumbnail version of the author photo(s) or the full-size image.
- Info - Returns information about a specific image in the repository.
- List - Returns information about all images (covers, author and interiors) for a particular EAN.]
- BISH Assets: Returns a list of all assets held in BiblioShare regarding an isbn including:
- ONIX 3.0
- ONIX 2.1
- Images
- Position
- Samples
- ISBNs for Assets: Returns a list of all ISBNs held in BiblioShare regarding an Asset including:
- Sample
- Excerpt
- TOC
- Guide
- Teacher's guide
- Back cover
- Author photo
- Sample
- Sample - returns a pdf or epub for download
- Excerpt - returns a pdf or epub for download
- TOC - returns a pdf or epub for download
- Guide - returns a pdf or epub for download
- Teacher's guide - returns a pdf or epub for download
- MARC Record Web Service - Returns a full or brief MARC record for specified EANs
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- Get a token from us (see below).
- Specify an ISBN-13/EAN as part of a URL. The query should look like this:
- https://www.biblioshare.org/BNCServices/BNCServices.asmx/ONIX?Token=string&EAN=string
- Token = Your user token.
- EAN = The item you are looking for data for. Without hyphens. 13 digits, likely starting with 978, or perhaps 979.
- This will deliver a full ONIX record from BiblioShare.
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- Get a token from us. (see below)
- Specify an ISBN-13/EAN as part of a URL. The query should look like this:
- https://www.biblioshare.org/bncServices/BNCServices.asmx/DetailImages?token=string&san=string&ean=string&thumbnail=yes&Perspective=interior&FileNumber=int&maxWidth=&maxHeight=
- Token = Your user token
- EAN = The item you are looking for a cover an interior image of. Without hyphens. 13 digits, likely starting with 978, or perhaps 979.
- SAN = The SAN of the supplier. Note: In almost all cases this should be left empty. If this is the case, remove "string" so your URL reads ...&SAN=&Thumbnail.
- Thumbnail = True/False. This is fairly self-explanatory, but 'True' returns a 140px by Y thumbnail of the image and 'False' returns the full-size image as supplied by the publisher.
- Perspective = Interior. This indicates the type of image you are pulling back.
- FileNumber = integer. This will pull back the sequence number of the interior image as indicated by the image provider in the file name.
- Insert the above into an HTML image tag (i.e. <img src ="https://www.biblioshare.org//BNCServices/BNCServices.asmx/DetailImages?Token=...">) and publish it. You could also script something to build these links automagically.
- If we don't have an image for the specified item, we will return a placeholder image (120px by 120px).
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- The message will either read "No Image Available," or "Invalid Login" (if your token is bad).
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Returns a list of all assets held in BiblioShare regarding an isbn including:
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- We are logging things so that we can both troubleshoot errors and monitor usage.
- Please be careful using the services. This is 'beta' type stuff. We are using it in our products and will continue to do so, but we would recommend testing things and talking to us before building a big online portal using this service.
- Our focus is on the Canadian English language trade market.
- We "only" have about 3about 4,400000,000 unique bibliographic records and over 2over 3,600275,000 cover images at this time. But we are continually getting more, so if it is not there now it could be soon.