ISBN ./. journals

[Robby Stephenson]

On Thursday 23 October 2008, Albrecht Will wrote:
> 1. I do not like the use of Amazon.
> I would prefer a regional database like www.buchkatalog.de. This is a
> correction to my first idea. Unfortunatly you cannot use the VLB (in
> english: register of available books) because you must pay for it. This
> last database is neutral and the nearly opposit to Amazon.
> But can you give me a hint to use www.buchkatalog.de? I found no way to
> integrate it into tellico.
> Buchkatalog belongs to one of 4 german wholesalers. And my wife - she's a
> bookseller - use it too.

To use buchkatalog as a data source, there would need to be a script for 
scraping the website unless it has an API for accessing data. And I don't 
know of one, sorry. 

> 2. Surely you know the ISSN. Its the code for magazins and newspapers.
> Sometimes its necessary to take such materials into the database in
> tellico. I thought for an equal procedure to catch magazins like books.
> But I fear, there is no database in the background.

OK. You can add a field for the ISSN value, but I'd have to check how Amazon 
handles ISSN searches. Right now, Tellico doesn't use it at all.

Robby