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about_ArcaneBooks SHORT DESCRIPTION Retrieves book metadata based on the ISBN or LCCN. LONG DESCRIPTION This module is designed to retrieve metadata for books based on either the ISBN or the LCCN (Library of Congress Catalog Number). It will return data such as the book title, author, and more. To see a list of functions, please use "Get-Help about_ABFunctions". In addition each cmdlet has help, you can use the Get-Help feature of PowerShell to learn more about each one. BACKGROUND The author (Robert Cain aka ArcaneCode) is a member of the Alabama Historical Radio Society(https://alhrs.org/). They are beginning a project to create metadata for their library (title, author, publisher, etc.) and store it in cloud based software. Naturally we want to automate as much of this as possible, since the collection is rather extensive. Some of our books are so old they have neither an ISBN or a Library of Congress Catalog Number (LCCN for short). Those will require manual intervention to key in the data. Fortunately many of the books have the LCCN, the newer books have an ISBN, and a very few have both. The goal with this project was to allow a user to create a simple text file using notepad, Excel, or something similar. The user can enter an LCCN into one file or the ISBN in another. That data file will be piped through the appropriate cmdlets found in this module and produce a list of metadata for each book including things such as the book title, author, publication date, and the like. This output can then be piped into standard PowerShell cmdlets to output the data to formats such as CSV, XML, JSON, and the like. The sources used in this module are the Library of Congress or the Open Library site, which is part of the Internet Archive. Both provide web APIs that can use to retrieve data. For more information, please see the online documentation at the projects GitHub site, https://github.com/arcanecode/ArcaneBooks . NOTE Author: Robert C Cain | @ArcaneCode | arcane@arcanetc.com This code is Copyright (c) 2023 Robert C Cain All rights reserved The code herein is for demonstration purposes. No warranty or guarantee is implied or expressly granted. This module may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the express written consent of the author. TROUBLESHOOTING NOTE Help for the about_* topics doesn't work correctly on all versions of Linux due to issues with PowerShell's Help system. SEE ALSO https://github.com/arcanecode/ArcaneBooks https://arcanecode.com/info/ ABOUT TOPICS about_ArcaneBooks about_ABFunctions about_ABUsage KEYWORDS ArcaneBooks, ISBN, LCCN |