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DailyNotes/2004/11/10

Getting back down to concrete work with booklists

Today, I've been diving back into working with the booklist that I built around Czesław Miłosz: DailyNotes/2004/06/29/MiloszCollection, XML that has come from the ScholarsBox. The big question that I'm looking at right now is what the most useful XML representation for my booklist. Currently, the XML used is the XMLization of the data source from which the entry was drawn. For example, the first book:

New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001

was from amazon.com. The XML is 

<Item>
        <Title>
                                        New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001
                                </Title>
        <Author>
                                        Czeslaw Milosz
                                </Author>
        <Type>
                                        Book
                                </Type>
        <Date>
                                        25 March, 2003
                                </Date>
        <Publisher>
                                        Ecco
                                </Publisher>
        <ISBN>
                                        0060514485
                                </ISBN>
        <Price>
                                        $19.95
                                </Price>
        <Identifier>
                                        http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060514485/webservices-20?dev-t=D2L0SJ0N2ZTRXE%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2
                                </Identifier>
        <SmallImage>
                                        http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060514485.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg
                                </SmallImage>
        <MediumImage>
                                        http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060514485.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg
                                </MediumImage>
        <LargeImage>
                                        http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060514485.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
                                </LargeImage>
</Item>

MODS encoding

Using ModsSpec and remembering that obtain MODS from the Library of Congress, I am now looking at a MODS encoding of the Milosz book.

However, if you try to get from the [WWW]MODS record for ISBN 0060514485, we get nothing. Same for [WWW]Melvyl search on 0060514485

It turns out that the libraries have a hardcover versions (not suprisingly). It's also not surprising that amazon.com would come out with the paperback version first. [WWW]Melvyl search for Milosz and collected shows that the ISBN for the hardcover version is 006019667X.

Let me try again with the hardcover version:

New and Collected Poems, 1931-2001

Now, we can get a [WWW]MODS 3.0 record for the book.

Miłosz, Czesław.

/MiloszMods