Open Library recently
announced the availability of a
RESTful API to access Open Library book metadata in
RDF/XML format, which combines elements of the
Dublin Core metadata terms with some elements from
bibliontology and the registered
RDA schemas.
This service is in an early stage. The
given example returns a nice RDF/XML, but without namespace declarations, whereas
this book of Edgar Allan Poe returns a RDF/XML with declarations.
Open Library offers
several identifiers for their entries like Dewey, LC, ISBN 10, ISBN 13, LCCN, IA & OCLC, so this service could be very helpful when making mashups of data from museums, archives and libraries.