I wouldn't be surprised either. But it's kind of important if they
actually want their APIs to be _used_ by anyone. Even if you can only
share with other SerSol customers. What's the point of having APIs if
the community can't share code they write to use them?
I am interested in incorporating SerSol 360 Link support into Umlaut,
although my institution is not a 360 Link customer. So I'm curious where
you end up with this, and if you can establish some allowed mechanism
for sharing SerSol API-client code, even if only with other SerSol
customers, that would be useful to all of us. Only SerSol customers
have any _use_ for the code of course, but if a part of Umlaut has to be
downloaded seperately only after you've somehow established yourself as
a SerSol customer--that gets tricky to manage.
Jonathan
Yitzchak Schaffer wrote:
From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Yitzchak Schaffer
Sent: Wed 4/2/2008 12:28 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions 360 API - PHP classes?
Does anyone have/know of PHP classes for searching the Serials Solutions
360 APIs, particularly Search?
Okay, having not heard any affirmatives, I'm starting work on this. I'm
an OOP and PHP noob, so I'm donning my flak jacket/dunce cap in advance,
but I'll try to make this as useful to the community and comprehensive
as time and my ability allow. Assuming that Serials Solutions will
allow some kind of sharing for these - they make clients sign a NDA
before they show you the docs. I'm waiting to hear their response; I
would be surprised if they wouldn't allow sharing of something like this
among clients.
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Yitzchak Schaffer
Systems Librarian
Touro College Libraries
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New York, NY 10010
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Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
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rochkind (at) jhu.edu
