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| 6th Nov 2015, 1:22 PM | #1 REPORT | |
 | Dr Doom SUBS I wanna eat an artichoke once in a while Member since Feb 2008 25244 Points Administrator |  |
| 7th Nov 2015, 11:55 PM | #2 REPORT | |
 | neil86 Member since Jul 2012 5996 Points | I have books with 9 digit ISBN (prefixed by zero) eg. 0-441 -34254 which doesn't seem to be searchable in the oclc website. I leave the hyphens out but no returns. Can you help me ? |
| 8th Nov 2015, 8:56 AM | #3 REPORT | |
 | nboldock Lend me ten pounds and I'll buy you a drink. Member since Feb 2012 7197 Points Moderator |
neil86 wrote:
I have books with 9 digit ISBN (prefixed by zero) eg. 0-441 -34254 which doesn't seem to be searchable in the oclc website. I leave the hyphens out but no returns. Can you help me ?
They should be 10 or 13 digits/characters long. Can you post one up and let us see an example? |
| 8th Nov 2015, 9:32 AM | #4 REPORT | |
 | TopPopper Member since Mar 2013 2612 Points | If you copy and paste either an ISBN number (no spaces or digits) or the barcode number (no spaces or digits) into Google, it will bring back the book - so it's a handy way of checking. I tried the nine digits and nothing showed, so I think, if it does literally say just that, it's possibly a printing error. In any case, as nboldock says, an example would be great - you can load a book up now without the ISBN number typed in, and when we get to the bottom of it, it can be added. |
| 8th Nov 2015, 10:30 AM | #5 REPORT | |
| neil86 Member since Jul 2012 5996 Points | Unfortunately my book cover is a bit ragged so I have scanned the inside page of acknowledgements. Can I send this photo to you. I looked up the book on a book seller site and the ISBN has been changed to 0-441-342531. The book was published in 1974 and has an ISBN 0-441-34254. Were the numbers always 10 and 13 digits ? |
| 8th Nov 2015, 2:08 PM | #6 REPORT | |
| TopPopper Member since Mar 2013 2612 Points | No need, I just did some checking and found this on good old Wikipedia: "The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) created in 1966. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO 2108 (the SBN code can be converted to a ten digit ISBN by prefixing it with a zero)." and "An SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit "0". For example, the second edition of Mr. J. G Reeder Returns published by Hodder in 1965 has "SBN 340 01381 8" - 340 indicating the publisher, 01381 their serial number, and 8 being the check digit, this can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated." So, 9-digit numbers do exist and can be converted to 10 digits. In your case, putting a zero at the front creates the number 0044134254. Google doesn't find it, but that's all you need to do, I think. |
| 10th Nov 2015, 10:05 PM | #7 REPORT | |
 | LouisSidney Member since May 2012 10636 Points | The language is missing in some cases, there for instance: English. |
| 10th Nov 2015, 11:31 PM | #8 REPORT | |
 | Scratchy45 In Revived 45s, disinterred 33&1/3s, saved 78s Member since Jul 2011 782 Points | <The language is missing in some cases, there for instance: English.> 8798061305 is the ISBN I found on ABEBooks for another JEE edition of this book, which starts with an 87 Denmark prefix. 8998061315 seems rather too close to that for comfort.... The prefix may indicate a territory rather than a language, from what I remember, and ISBNs, when I was familiar with them, were issued by the body holding the ISBN agency for a specific territory. As publishers had to pay for tranches of ISBN numbers to assign to their books, all kinds of weird and wonderful things went on, like re-use of ISBNS rather than paying out for more! |
| 11th Nov 2015, 9:41 AM | #9 REPORT | |
| LouisSidney Member since May 2012 10636 Points | What I mean is: Language is missing in Book World, it doesn't appear on the page (I wasn't talking about the publication itself!) |
| 11th Nov 2015, 5:25 PM | #10 REPORT | |
 | Orbiting Cat Member since Jan 2008 1181 Points Administrator | At the moment the language is not shown if it is English. |
| 11th Nov 2015, 7:25 PM | #11 REPORT | |
| Scratchy45 In Revived 45s, disinterred 33&1/3s, saved 78s Member since Jul 2011 782 Points |
LouisSidney wrote:
What I mean is: Language is missing in Book World, it doesn't appear on the page (I wasn't talking about the publication itself!)
Sorry! I completely misunderstood ,LouisSidney. |
| 11th Nov 2015, 8:49 PM | #12 REPORT | |
| LouisSidney Member since May 2012 10636 Points | It doesn't appear there either, albeit correctly computed in the statistics: Walloon. |
| 15th Nov 2015, 9:22 PM | #13 REPORT | |
 | musictom SUBS Member since Apr 2012 9238 Points Moderator | The guide to adding images page is missing (page not found). |
| 15th Nov 2015, 9:23 PM | #14 REPORT | |
| musictom SUBS Member since Apr 2012 9238 Points Moderator | This record will not accept the class number: 781.643097309045. Looked up in Classify. |
| 5th Dec 2015, 4:40 AM | #15 REPORT | |
| Tailspin Member since Mar 2013 8919 Points Moderator | I have a couple books where the class number found at http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ is not accepted. So far no one has come to the rescue with a solution. Is it because the the result is too many characters? Perhaps field needs to be modified to allow larger results [more characters]. |
| 5th Dec 2015, 3:52 PM | #16 REPORT | |
| Orbiting Cat Member since Jan 2008 1181 Points Administrator |
Tailspin wrote:
I have a couple books where the class number found at http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ is not accepted.
So far no one has come to the rescue with a solution. Is it because the the result is too many characters? Perhaps field needs to be modified to allow larger results [more characters]. I'm convinced that those extra-long classifications are an aberration in OCLC, but anyway I've changed 45worlds so that it now accepts them! |
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