Bulk import of ISBNs
Is there a way of importing a long list of ISBNs (separated by spaces, commas, hard returns, what have you)? Alternately, does anybody know a way of bulk converting an ISBN list into one of Zotero's accepted import formats? I apologize if this has already been addressed, but my search of the forum didn't yield anything.
(it may also depend how tech-savy you are: I haven't looked into this much, but the LoC's SRU can output marcxml, which Zotero can import:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/specs/search-retrieve.html
Individual ISBN searches take the form:
http://z3950.loc.gov:7090/voyager?version=1.1&operation=searchRetrieve&query=dc.resourceIdentifier=9780199286546&maximumRecords=1
I don't know if you can search for multiple ISBNs, though - you'd have to look at the docs).
In general I don't believe we do any rate-limiting in Add Item by Identifier, so it's not currently really designed for importing huge number of items at once.
978-1-79360-413-2
978-0-521-77059-0
978-0-8422-7088-5
and copy it into the "Add by identifier" window. As dstillman says, we haven't optimized this for importing thousands of ISBNs, so I'd go maybe 50-100 at a time, but especially if these are mainly English books likely to be found in the Library of Congress (which is our first try and doesn't tend to rate limit easily), you'll likely be fine.
None of the Readerware export formats are supported and likely won't be in the future, but given the above, I'd export to CSV and then just go through the table and copy the ISBNs to be added.
An alternative, if you like playing with technology, would be to use MARCEdit to convert the CSV/TSV file to MARCXML and import that, see https://guides.library.illinois.edu/c.php?g=463460&p=3168299