[seul-edu] New educational app--library

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

Also from Open Source Schools:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/isbn.pl/

isbn.pl contains a single, simple function which returns a book
record from the US Library of Congress based on a single incoming
ISBN. It is intended for use in other packages, such as barcode
reader drivers, to provide users of those tools with the extensive
cataloging metadata librarians have created over the years. It
differs from other tools seen so far in that the data returned is in
the MARC format, the heavily used, ancient metadata standard
originally based on library catalog cards. It thus provides much
data in a known syntax via a known query protocol (z39.50, using
Zeta), rather than via Web page screen scraping.


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