ajlyon/zandy — Issue #62: add by identifier
Author: ajlyon
Created: 2011-11-10 07:57:57+00:00
State: open

We could add ISBN lookup fairly easily:
http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/0674081250?method=getMetadata&fl=*&format=json&count=1

The JSON is very simple:
```{
"stat":"ok",
"list":[{
"url":["http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20824015?referer=xid"],
"publisher":"Harvard University Press",
"form":["BA"],
"lccn":["89049648"],
"lang":"eng",
"city":"Cambridge, Mass.",
"author":"Stanisław Baranczak.",
"ed":"1. print.",
"year":"1990",
"isbn":["0674081250"],
"title":"Breathing under water and other East European essays",
"oclcnum":["20824015",
"243448469",
"440936262",
"469918817",
"493363350",
"630686428"]}]}```

This would make book scanning a straightforward proposition, at the risk of undermining the Scanner for Zotero project.