hachetteuk/huk-api

Hachette UK API

Hachette UK API

This is a repository will will hold the following about Hachette UK Bibliographic API:

• Feature Requests

• Bugs

• Documentation

huk-api's Issues

Search Parameters - Title & Author

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently it is only possible to enter ISBN as a search parameter. This leads to users having to know the exact ISBN in order to return a result in an API call

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be useful if, at the very least, author and title were parameters to search on. For example, searching for an author's name would return all records for that author. Searching for a title would be similar to the ISBN search. Useful to have fuzzy logic on the title search to mitigate exclusions of "the", "a" etc.

Describe alternatives you've considered
In future, subject classifications and other criteria could be added, as well as the option to add multiple parameters to further narrow down results.

Additional context

Related Titles

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The related titles section of a result currently appears to only return the same title's different formats.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be useful to be clearer on what related titles are. For example, for different formats, this could be named "other formats" and related titles would return titles within a similar subject categorisation.

Describe alternatives you've considered
What constitutes related titles could vary. A preliminary way to classify this would be via BIC or THEMA subjects, however in future ML could be used to determine related titles via related sales etc.