Comments on: RESTful output from AADL catalog

By: Edward Vielmetti

Edward Vielmetti — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:48:37 +0000

OK, after a bit more work I managed to transform this output into something that adheres to the COINS standard for bibliography references. It’s not perfect (it just works on books) but a few people on #code4lib found that it validates.

More details soon, I’ll write it up on http://www.superpatron.com .

By: "Self-plagiarism is style" » REST output from Huddersfield's catalogue

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:47:28 +0000

[...] Inspiried by John Blyberg's middleware which provides REST output from the Ann Arbor catalogue, I've put together something similar for ours: http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/rest/info.html [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:24:01 +0000

This is really cool, thanks!

By: Edward Vielmetti

Edward Vielmetti — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:06:44 +0000

John, here’s a page with some more citation formats, if you’re looking for points of comparison:

http://www.microformats.org/wiki/cite-formats

the SimpleDC output is real output from a search of the U of Michigan catalog.

By: john

john — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:04:47 +0000

Ed S., Yes, I’ve looked at it. It would be very cool to somehow adopt that standard, but due to some very real limitations with the access we have to our ILS, I don’t see that happening in a meaningful way. Opensearch would either require a robust implementation from the our vendor (III) or they need to provide the tools that would allow me to do it myself.

DC: From what I’ve read about unAPI, it’s a microformat standard, correct? (I may be way off base) I’m very interested in pursuing catalog microformats, especially if there is a standard already, which it looks like you’re working on. I’ll find you.
:)

By: dchud

dchud — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:15:40 +0000

Some of us are developing a spec that's similar in intent called unAPI. Would be interested in any feedback if you thought it worthwhile. -dc

By: Ed Summers

Ed Summers — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:05:45 +0000

Did you look at opensearch at all?

By: Edward Vielmetti

Edward Vielmetti — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:29:33 +0000

Nice, John – that looks clean enough to start building more services from without going through a lot of screen-scraping grief.

I’ll see if I can’t get a little bit of python code to make use of this interface too.