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The Library of Congress has a site to search books by ISBN. A simple way to retrive book's information is using a URL like:
http://lccn.loc.gov/2009019559/mods
where it returns a XML structure that may parse easily. The URL requires a unique LCCN number in the the following format:
http://lccn.loc.gov/[lccn]/mods
I have a batch of books that has ISBN encoded in barcode. How may I retrieve/convert ISBN to LCCN in order to retrieve the XML data of the book?
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You can use the SRU catalog from the Library of Congress. The query would look something like this:
lx2.loc.gov:210/lcdb?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=bath.isbn=[ISBN]&maximumRecords=1&recordSchema=mods
Replacing [ISBN] with the ISBN you want to look up
Within that response is an LCCN element. However, the catalog already returns MODS, so it might not be necessary to do anything at all.
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