I'm tasked with developing an application for retrieving, storing and searching data about books, magazines and the like, something very similar to a library application. While researching the topic I was stunned with the magnitude of different standards and acronyms, ISBNs, EANs, IANs and many more... so, are there any books or articles about best practices regarding how to work with all that book data and metadata? My google skilz haven't found anything of any use to me, and I would really like to get a better grip of this subject before opening my editor.
Thanks guys...