Hi Adrian,
Evergreen implements SRU and Z39.50 as search protocols.
Mark
Mark Jordan
Head of Library Systems
W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
Voice: 778.782.5753 / Fax: 778.782.3023
mjordan_at_sfu.ca
----- "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 - 12:35:36 EDT