Peter,
Yes, previous emails off-list had alerted us first to 70 or so titles with
carriage returns, and (after we'd tidied those up) yesterday to just two:
4815 Genes & Development
11707 Quality and Safety in Health Care
I hope they were the ones that you found. They should be OK now. If not, feel
free to email off-list to tell me the two new culprits are!
We have been busy developing more flexible APIs and in the course of that today
we realised that we were including some records that don't have feeds (and that
don't appear in our web interface). We will make sure that we tidy those up. We
also appreciate that we have some updating to do because of new launches and
title transfers. In the longer term we are looking to publisher-initiated
updates to our database via CrossRef.
Thank you for sharing what you have done with our data. We welcome 'case
studies' which we can use to suggest what people can do with this stuff. Please
share with any user group for your cataloguing system too!
I'll email this list again once we think the data has been cleaned up, and once
we have other APIs to try out and comment on.
Terry Bucknell
Electronic Resources Manager
Sydney Jones Library
University of Liverpool
Chatham St, PO Box 123
Liverpool, L69 3DA, UK
Tel: +44 (0)151 794 2692
Fax: +44 (0)151 794 2681
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From: Code for Libraries [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Boheemen,
Peter van [[email protected]]
Sent: 18 February 2009 20:34
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers
Terry,
I was very pleased with the tab delimited file. I have read it into a table and
joined it to our catalog, that is now showing rss buttons in the A-Z list and
'recent articles' when presenting a full record presentation of a single
catalog record.
I discovered two problems with the file however.
1. I found two lines containing carriage returns, messing up these rows. (see
2. There are titles in the list that do have a title and an issn, but that do
not have a url of a rss feed. (e.g. Cell Differentiation)
Do you know of these problems ?
Regards,
Peter
Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and
Research Library
tel. +31 317 48 25 17
http://library.wur.nl <http://library.wur.nl/>
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From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Bucknell, Terry
Sent: Wed 11-2-2009 23:11
To: [email protected]
Subject: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers
As you may know, ticTOCs is a project funded by JISC in the UK to create a
single, freely available source of RSS feeds for tables of contents - see
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ . Our database now contains over 12,000 journals from
over 430 publishers. Up until now the only way to get feeds out of ticTOCs has
been to use our web interface to search for feeds and then export them as an
OPML file, or one at a time to a feed reader of your choice.
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-pretty-pretty-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.
We hope that you will use this data to populate your catalog, A-Z journals list
or whatever with RSS feed icons/links, or embedded TOCs. We look forward to
the day when SFX, SerialsSolutions and the like are all using our data!
Although the project phase of ticTOCs is very nearly at end end, we are
confident that we are very close to ensuring that the future of ticTOCs is
assured for at least the next three years, and will continue to be free.
Share and enjoy.
Terry Bucknell
Electronic Resources Manager
Sydney Jones Library
University of Liverpool
Chatham St, PO Box 123
Liverpool, L69 3DA, UK
Tel: +44 (0)151 794 2692
Fax: +44 (0)151 794 2681
