Eric,
You might be interested to know then that Lund University Libraries, the
people behind the DOAJ, have been doing this for years, since before
publisher RSS feeds and NGCs. They make it available to other libraries too
(for a fee) with your holdings indexed so you can search for full text
articles only. See
<http://www.lub.lu.se/en/search/information-about-elinlund.html>
--
Laurence Lockton
University of Bath
UK
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:21:32 -0500
From: Eric Lease Morgan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: ticTOCs makes its data available to developers
On 2/11/09 5:11 PM, "Bucknell, Terry" <[email protected]>
wrote:
We are working on creating APIs to let groups like the code4lib community
extract our data in more flexible ways, but it has been pointed out to
us - see
http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/tictocs-give-us-a-file-pretty-prett
y-pret ty-please/ - that all you really need (at least at first) is a
simple tab-delimited file that contains titles, ISSNs, and feed URIs for
all of the journals in tocTOCs. We now provide precisely this at
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/text.php.
This is pretty cool. I can see:
1. Selecting one or more of the RSS feeds that fit within
the collection development policy of a particular library
2. Regularly visiting the RSS feeds to extract the metadata
of newly available articles
3. Adding that metadata to a library's "next generation"
library catalog/index
4. And you can figure out the rest
Such a thing would be complementary to the article-level metadata
available from the DOAJ. Hmmm... ticTOC++
--
Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
(574) 631-8604
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