The xISBN web service supplies ISBNs and other information associated with an individual intellectual work that is represented in WorldCat. Submit an ISBN to this service, and it returns a list of related ISBNs and selected metadata.
Ideal for web-enabled search applications—such as library catalogs and online booksellers—and based on associations made in the WorldCat database, xISBN enables an end user to link to information about other versions of a source work.
"Without such a formal domain model, you're just creating 'text', not 'data'. Which is indeed what we used to do, when the text was destined for printed cards or pages. But now we need data."
The International Standard Text Code (ISTC) is a new identifier for the book industry. Whereas International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) provide a unique identity in the supply chain for each individual product format (either physical products—hardback, paperback; or digital products and formats—downloadable audiobook, PDF e-book, etc.), an ISTC identifies the underlying creative textual work.
The FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology is an ontology for recording and publishing on the Semantic Web bibliographic records of scholarly endeavours. It forms part of SPAR, a suite of Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies.
Vortrag im Rahmen des Workshops "KIM-Workshop: Vom Datensilo ins Semantic Web - Interoperabilität von Metadaten" auf dem Bibliothekskongress in Leipzig, März 2010