Adrian,
You could also take a look at Jangle: http://jangle.org/
It's a specification to provide an AtomPub based API to library
applications (including, but not limited to, ILSes).
Search is provided via OpenSearch + CQL.
There are currently only a few connectors written, but there are a few
more in the works.
-Ross.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Adrian Pohl <pohl_at_hbz-nrw.de> wrote:
> Dan Scott wrote:
>>> I'm very curious: Are there catalogs with similar APIs which are
> open to
>> everyone?
>>
>> Yes, indeed. Take a look at the Evergreen open source library system
>> (http://open-ils.org), which follows the unAPI specification
>> (http://unAPI.info) for offering alternative representations of the
>> underlying MARC21 records in MARC21XML, several flavours of Dublin
>> Core, MODS, HTML, RSS, and Atom.
>
> Thanks for the hint. But obviously this is not a search API. You first
> have to retrieve the record-number with a seperate catalog-search to get
> the data you want, don't you? So this API isn't as rich as the
> WorldCat-API.
> In the meantime, I found out that the Open-Data-Projects Open Library
> (http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api) and ‡biblios.net
> (https://bws.biblios.net/doku.php) got an open search- and retrieve-
> API. The biblios-API even let's you write into the database.
> I would like to know: Are there any more library-catalogs with an open
> API? Isn't that a way to increase the importance of catalogs and get
> them connected to the web? Other applications (I'm thinking of emerging
> webbased research-, publication- and scholarly-communication-tools)
> could reuse the data and on their part provide data for mashups in
> catalogs.
>
> Adrian
>
Received on Mon Mar 09 2009 - 10:55:18 EDT