Hi,
I'd just like to announce that we moved our DAIA related resources [1]
to SourceForge:
http://daia.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/daia/
http://daia.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/daia/
DAIA is a data model to express information about the availability of
documents and their particular copies for library-related services
(loan, local presentation, open access online, interlibrary loan...).
Its specification (http://purl.org/NET/DAIA) includes serialization in
XML, JSON and RDF - use the format of your choice and get the other
serializations for free [2]
If you are happy with stuff like NCIP, SLNP, SIP2, Z39.50 Holdings, ISO
20775 Holdings than I wonder why. But if you like to decouple and open
up your library system for better innovation that you might want to have
a look. Additional services like "Tweet-me-if-the-book-is-back" should
be easy to implement by third parties based on a common, well-defined
availability API (</end-of-advertisement>)
The current SVN repository contains the existing Perl implementation
(that you can also get via CPAN), an implementation in PHP and an XSLT
client for DAIA/XML. The VuFind project also contains a DAIA-Driver as
client component.
Feedback is very welcome, feel free to join. The project mailing list is
https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/daia-devel (don't be
confused that the first mail is in German, we also know English).
So how do you get availability information out of your library system?
Cheers
Jakob
[1] see my mail from October 2009:
http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg06164.html
[2] ok, the RDF serialization is still work-in-progress - see
http://purl.org/ontology/daia for the current draft
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Received on Mon Apr 26 2010 - 08:08:05 EDT