Karen,
I assume that MARCXML is one of those formats? As for MODS, that's
possible although at the moment names would not be broken down. OL is
working on altering its storage of names to include separate given and
family portions, so that will be possible in the future.
Note that an initial MARCXML implementation will not be full MARC, in
the sense that the OL record doesn't store most of the MARC fixed field
data. In the case where the original input record was a MARC record,
more work needs to be done to combine that original record with OL
enhancements and export as full MARC.
kc
Coombs, Karen A wrote:
Karen,
I hate to say it but as someone who is working with the WorldCat Search API
at this point I sure could create code that used Open Library data faster if
you used one of the same metadata formats that the WorldCat Search API uses.
While the two services seem different, (I haven't really figured out how to
effectively search with the Open Library API) there is a learning curve just
working with different metadata formats. It would be good not to have to
teach my staff about another format if I don't have to. That being said, I'd
love to see MODS, that is if it is really good MODS where names are broken
out into their component parts (given, family) and roles are included.
Karen
On 8/10/09 3:42 PM, "Karen Coyle" <li...@kcoyle.net> wrote:
I'd really appreciate some testing and any comments folks have. Thanks, kc
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [ol-tech] Modified RDF/XML api
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:32:25 -0700
From: Karen Coyle <kco...@kcoyle.net>
Reply-To: Open Library -- technical discussion <ol-t...@archive.org>
To: Open Library -- technical discussion <ol-t...@archive.org>
The Open Library API that returns bibliographic data in RDF/XML has been
greatly modified. To make use of it, simply add '.rdf' to the end of the
bibliographic identifier:
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL6807502M.rdf
and of course it can be used in a curl command as:
curl 'http://openlibrary.org/b/OL6807502M.rdf'
The output relies heavily on DCMI Metadata Terms ("dcterms") [1] for its
properties, but also makes use of Bibliontology [2] and RDA Vocabulary
[3] where those present a better fit. Because it is in XML, this
provides what we hope will be an easy-to-use format that makes use of
commonly known metadata terms.
Not all data elements are included in the output, in particular there is
no attempt at this point to export the tables of contents fields. That
could be a future enhancement.
We would appreciate any comments you have on this API, as well as
suggestions and corrections.
There are a number of different bibliographic formats that we could
return in our APIs: MARCXML, MODS, EndNote import, ... I would be
particularly interested to hear if there are particular formats that you
would find immediately useful.
Thanks,
kc
[1] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
[2] http://bibliontology.com/
[3] http://metadataregistry.org/schema/show/id/1.html
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