[Koha] Worldcat's xISBN Web service, down?

[Katrin Fischer]

I've filed a bug report for removing the feature:

*Bug 21226* 
<https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21226> - 
Remove use of retired OCLC xISBN service


On 15.08.2018 04:47, Bryan Baldus wrote:
> The OCLC Developer Network website has a posting about this [1]:
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> <quote>As a follow up to our March
> 2016 announcement<https://www.oclc.org/developer/news/2015/change-to-xid-services.en.html> to
> continue to offer Identifier Services (xID) without any changes to the
> services or data, OCLC has made the official decision to retire all xID
> services on 1 July 2018.  These services no longer comply with OCLC’s
> heightened security standards and users continue to experience
> diminishing value as supporting data becomes further and further out of
> date. This means that users will need to take action to remove the
> following web services from all applications:
> *	xISBN<http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm>
> *	xISSN<http://xissn.worldcat.org/xissnadmin/doc/api.htm>
> *	xOCLCnum<http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/xoclcnum/api.htm>
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> At this time, we are not aware of alternative services to consider but
> want to provide users with as much notice as possible, so they can
> conduct research and make plans to remove these xID services prior to
> their retirement on 1 July 2018. If you have any questions or concerns,
> please contact Tony Chirakos<mailto:chirakot at oclc.org>. </quote>
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> [1] https://www.oclc.org/developer/news/2018/xid-decommission.en.html
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> I hope this helps,
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> Bryan Baldus
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