This plugin can query either the
Library of Congress or the GBV (
Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund - Germany) for metadata.
It uses Search/Retrieve via URL (
SRU) and fetches the metadata in
MARC format. Theoretically additional SRU sources could be added easily.
Main Features- Retrieve metadata by ISBN
- Retrieve metadata by author and title
- Metadata to fetch: Author, Title, Series, ISBN, Comments, Languages, Publisher, Published Date, Tags
- Three categories of tags are fetched: Genre, Topic (Thesaurus), Topic (free). For each a prefix can be set in case you want to have an easy overview of where a tag came from.
- Should be fast, since it only has to do one query
Note- It does not fetch covers. There might sometimes be covers, yet library catalogs are just not the best source
History
Version 0.6.1 (2014-01-29)
Version 0.6 (2014-01-28)
- Fix: don't check title or author if result is retrieved via ISBN
- Fix: Check if author matches if result is NOT retrieved via ISBN
- Fix: GBV and LOC now get a clickable link (identifier)
- Fix: Reset button has a label
- Tweak: Minimum results to fetch defaults to 10 (instead 1) now; otherwise results from LOC are really bad sometimes
- Tweak: Search for short title (e.g. just 'Animal farm' instead of Animal farm: a fairy story')
- Other: Minor fixes
Version 0.5 (2014-01-27; initial release)
Todo- Find out how to use my own relevance scoring (~thread)
- I have absolutely no experience with Python, so some of the code might be not state of the art. In my tests nothing breaks it anymore, yet it isn't tested extensively. I got some ideas on what to improve, yet not that much time. So I release it as it is and hope someone finds it useful
Bugs