Owen wrote:
Although part of the problem is that you might want to offer any service on
the basis of an OpenURL the major use case is supply of a document (either
online or via ILL) - so it strikes me you could look at DAIA
http://www.gbv.de/wikis/cls/DAIA_-_Document_Availability_Information_API ?
Jakob does this make sense?
Just having read Joel Spolsky's article about Architecture Astronauts
that Mike pointed to [1] I hesitate to propagate what you can all do
with DAIA. But your use case makes sense if you want to offer services
provided or mediated by a specific institution (such as a library) with
a specific publication.
Inspired by your idea to combine OpenURL and DAIA I update the DAIA perl
library [2] and hacked a DAIA server that also understands some very
limited OpenURL (it only knows books with ISBN):
You can look up which library has a specific publication in the GBV
library union by its identifier:
http://ws.gbv.de/daia/gvk/?id=gvk:ppn:48574418X
or by OpenURL
http://ws.gbv.de/daia/gvk/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.isbn=0-471-38393-7
Have a look at the simple source code of this script at
http://daia.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/daia/trunk/daiapm/examples/gvk.pl?view=markup
I want to stress that this demo DAIA server does not use the full
expression power of DAIA, in fact it does not provide any availability
information at at - but you hopefully get the concept.
Cheers
Jakob
[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
[2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/daia/files/DAIA-0.27.tar.gz
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