Anna's Archive ISBN visualization is fascinating; it really shows how fragmented and incomplete the ISBN landscape is. We don't use their data directly (licensing concerns), but it confirmed what we were seeing: massive gaps in non-English coverage.
WorldCat is great for library holdings but harder to use for translation discovery specifically, it tells you "this library has this edition" but doesn't easily answer "has this book been translated into Basque?" across its whole catalog. We'd love to integrate it eventually, though.
Right now Wikidata turned out to be the secret weapon: it has structured translation relationships that none of the others provide.
Anna's Archive ISBN visualization is fascinating; it really shows how fragmented and incomplete the ISBN landscape is. We don't use their data directly (licensing concerns), but it confirmed what we were seeing: massive gaps in non-English coverage.
WorldCat is great for library holdings but harder to use for translation discovery specifically, it tells you "this library has this edition" but doesn't easily answer "has this book been translated into Basque?" across its whole catalog. We'd love to integrate it eventually, though.
Right now Wikidata turned out to be the secret weapon: it has structured translation relationships that none of the others provide.