Import catalogue
Given:
In a book I own, the following ISBN is printed: 3-456-83964-2
Note: Additionally, as in every German book, the German National Library is listed: https://www.dnb.de/DE/Home/home_node.html
Process:
1.188BET靠谱吗When I imported this to zotero, the catalogue was "BnF ISBN" and provided an ISBN of 978-3-456-83964-6.
2.I then imported this "new" ISBN (978-3-456-83964-6) again (for testing).The catalogue used this time was K10plus.
3.Checking their web site, I found that K10plus also provides data for the initial ISBN: https://k10plus.boss.bsz-bw.de/Record/(DE-627)1603446737
4.Checking their web site, I found that WorldCat also provides data: https://search.worldcat.org/de/title/248943003
Questions/Comments:
Why isn't WorldCat used?This should be the case, shouldn't it?
Why does the catalogue change at all?(Not that I like K10plus, but why does it change?)
Are there any plans for removing K10plus?This catalogue is used for multiple entries of mine.And in my opinion it is the worst ever.As far as I get it, it collects all data from every real world library and thereby has lots of duplicated books with all wrong information.
In a book I own, the following ISBN is printed: 3-456-83964-2
Note: Additionally, as in every German book, the German National Library is listed: https://www.dnb.de/DE/Home/home_node.html
Process:
1.188BET靠谱吗When I imported this to zotero, the catalogue was "BnF ISBN" and provided an ISBN of 978-3-456-83964-6.
2.I then imported this "new" ISBN (978-3-456-83964-6) again (for testing).The catalogue used this time was K10plus.
3.Checking their web site, I found that K10plus also provides data for the initial ISBN: https://k10plus.boss.bsz-bw.de/Record/(DE-627)1603446737
4.Checking their web site, I found that WorldCat also provides data: https://search.worldcat.org/de/title/248943003
Questions/Comments:
Why isn't WorldCat used?This should be the case, shouldn't it?
Why does the catalogue change at all?(Not that I like K10plus, but why does it change?)
Are there any plans for removing K10plus?This catalogue is used for multiple entries of mine.And in my opinion it is the worst ever.As far as I get it, it collects all data from every real world library and thereby has lots of duplicated books with all wrong information.
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adamsmith
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DWL-SDCATo further pile-on negatives about WorldCat: It is a "union catalog" that is the (not-very-merged) contents of tens of thousands of individual library catalogs.The quality of the data entry to each of these individual library catalogs varies from near perfection to preposterously careless.It is common to find many records from a single ISBN with different degrees of completeness and accuracy.It is common to have WorldCat records found by entering an ISSN that list several editions of a book (each of which have different true ISSNs, different publication years, different pagination, different numbers of chapters, etc.).