On Mar 20, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
On Mar 20, 2006, at 8:22 AM, Edward Summers wrote:
So, the idea is to insert "coins" into each of my bibliographic
records. After doing so user-agents that crawl the site, or user-
agents equipped with some sort of coins-aware tool/plugin will
convert the coin into an OpenURL and allow the user to resolve it
against their local resolver. No?
Yes, that's the idea.
But wait, there's more!
With the new unAPI spec, you can also allow eager hackers to mashup
and rewire your cataloged data and objects web-2.0 style just by
including a tiny bit of additional html and a small set of function
calls.
http://unapi.info/specs/
There's a list of cool examples already in the wild:
http://unapi.info/examples.html
...among them, even, a validator from Mr. Summers, to help you to
know how your unAPI service is doing.
Rudimentary 2.0!
-dc
