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Re:Introducing the Open Library Explorer by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Monday December 21, 2020 @02:15PM (#25498301)
Does openlibrary.org support Z39.50 access?

The way the openlibrary.org site is constructed seems better than the others that came before, e.g., WorldCat. Every page is not just HTML but JSON, too. Omit the slug and add .json after the ID.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25498127

This is without even considering the availability of bulk data dumps. A+

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Re:Introducing the Open Library Explorer by mekarpeles on Monday December 21, 2020 @02:26PM (#25498412)
Hi thanks kindly for the question, we don't currently have Z39.50 or OAI-PMH access, however we do surface content via OPDS:

https://ianews.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/open-library-opds @ https://bookserver.archive.org.

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