Daniel,
maybe this could be interesting to you:
http://moth.notube.tv:6080/notube-identity-resolver/resolver?value=978-0140445145&category=isbn
where the value parameter accepts a valid ISBN number.
If you are interested on this service you can find here some details
http://bit.ly/8RCFiE
cheers,
Davide
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Daniel O'Connor
<daniel.oconnor@gmail.com>wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Daniel O'Connor
>> <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Psst, Chris, Tobias - any chance of RDFBookMashup rendering 'owl:sameAs
>> > urn:isbn:12434567' ?
>> >
>> > I might see if I can glue freebase's 1.8 million or so ISBNs onto
>> > rdfbookmashup.
>>
>> It's probably common knowledge, but there's a few scripts here -
>> http://wiki.foaf-project.org/w/DanBri/WikipediaISBNs - for extracting
>> isbns from wikipedia dumps. It found about half a million last time I
>> tried.
>>
>>
> Ah neat.
>
> The appeal of gluing freebase onto the existing book linked data is because
> they've assimilated http://openlibrary.org/ and others - so it's a shiny
> new dataset in addition to having wikipedia assimilated.
>
> http://blog.freebase.com/2009/04/14/science-fiction-books/
>