If a tree falls, but you can't put it on the forest's RSS feed, did it fall? :)
On 6/18/06, Robin Hastings <robin.hastings_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/18/06, Miriam Bobkoff <mbobkoff_at_cybermesa.com> wrote:
> > Robin Hastings wrote, in response to Tim Spalding's desire for a list of
> > ISBNs from a given library:
> >
> > >That sounds like an Innovative Interfaces system. I'm responsible for
> > >one of those at my library and there isn't a whole lot you can do with
> > >it without that very expensive XML server.
> >
> > If literally what's wanted is a list, I could run one out of our Innovative
> > system any time, and export it whereever I want to send it. Supposing I
> > were interested in the relationship Tim described ('LibraryThing is
> > starting to look at "hooking up" to libraries, for example providing its
> > recommendations to libraries that want to show them')--and I am--it would
> > not be burdensome to send such a list on a regular basis. But I don't know
> > of a way for it to send itself, or to allow LibraryThing to get in the
> > system and request such a thing automatically..
>
> I wasn't clear there - I'm responsible for connecting the catalog to
> the web. I don't worry about the backend as much. I'm sure it's
> possible to do on the back side of the system, but I can't think of a
> way to do it through the web interface so that it's available
> publicly. I was speaking from a rather limited view of the system -
> sorry about that!!
>
>
> --
> Robin Hastings
> robin.hastings_at_gmail.com
> http://www.rhastings.net
>
Received on Sun Jun 18 2006 - 22:59:23 EDT