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Posted by "George Pitcher" on 11/02/52 11:22
Hi,
My main site allows authenticated users to insert bibliographic data into
our database. We ask them to start by putting in an ISBN or ISSN. Some
documentes don't have them, or the use is too lazy to look for them. Rather
than them entering jibberish, we first check that if they have entered
something - that its mathematically correct (there's a algorithm to check
these).
Where they don't know the ISBN/ISSN, I would like them to enter their
document title and then get my system to check the UK's main library biblio
service (COPAC) and see if the title exists on their db. I've set up a
simple cURL test which queries the COPAC site and displays the page as if it
was from my site (not quite what I wanted - I'd rather have a list of
ISBN/ISSNs and their associated titles without all the baggage).
So my questions are:
Is there a way for me to (using cURL) ask COPAC how many records match the
search and if >0, return the data in a way that I can use it as I wish?
If not, is there another tool that I should be using?
MTIA
George in Oxford (using a mix of NT4/XP by command of the company)
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