Tools
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Web browsers
- Basic ISNI search form
- Plugin for viewing response XML: XV
Python
Requests for making API calls
Beautiful Soup for parsing XML
example script: https://github.com/eslao/isni_triage/blob/master/isni_matching.py
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OpenRefine or RefinePro ease the creation of API calls based on spreadsheet data, and come with HTML parsing functions that are sufficient for basic XML parsing
XSLT
Tutorials
Download OCLC Atom Pub guidelines (PDF)
Codecademy: APIs (tutorials for each specific API come with a “how to use APIs” lesson; coding languages vary)
OpenRefine: Fetching URLs from Web Services