Thanks Jakob, I'll check that paper out.
I would also note that the open source Umlaut link resolver which I
maintain also provides this sort of functionality, although just using
the ordinary SAP1/2 OpenURL requests, and returning either an internal
custom-to-Umlaut API format or HTML. I'm interested in checking out what
standards may exist to do this in a more interoperable way.
Jonathan
Jakob Voss wrote:
Hi,
The current issue of Ariadne (http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue57/) which
has just been published contains an article about the "SeeAlso"
linkserver protocol:
Jakob Voß: "SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol", Ariadne Issue 57,
2008. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue57/voss/
SeeAlso combines OpenSearch and unAPI to a simple API that delivers a
simple list of links. You can use it for dynamically embedding links
to recommendations, reviews, current availability, reviews, search
completion suggestions, etc. It's no rocket science but I found a well
defined API with reusable server and client better then having to hack
a special format and lookup syntax for each single purpose.
The reference client is written in JavaScript, see
http://ws.gbv.de/seealso/seealso.js and
http://ws.gbv.de/seealso/javascript-client/doc/ and the reference
Server is written in Perl, see
http://search.cpan.org/dist/SeeAlso-Server/ - but implementing it in
any other language should not be complicated. I'd be happy to get some
feedback either in form of code, applications, or criticism :-)
I noted that SeeAlso::Server is the only implementation of unAPI at
CPAN so far - if someone is interested, we could extract parts into an
independent unAPI package. The WWW::OpenSearch::Description package is
also worth to consider for use in SeeAlso::Server.
Greetings
Jakob
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Johns Hopkins University
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