Jonathan, Thanks - sorry I wasn't clearer in the post. (This is me wearing my I Am Not A Coder hat.)
You're absolutely right when you ask what the hell will be in the feeds, and at a glance, I'd say this is very likely: > If it's an Atom feed with embedded/linked custom OL XML schema including > all OL data, including workset relationships, whether the item is > available in fulltext and what the links to such fulltext are, etc? Cheers, george Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > George Oates wrote: >> So, a question back to the group is: do you think you and your teams would >> be >> able to consume an atom feed? >> > Absolutely, but... an Atom feed of WHAT? Atom is actually a very > flexible format, what format will the embeded "payloads" in the Atom > feed actually be delivered in? If it's only, say, an author and title > using standard Atom elements, then sure, I CAN consume it, but I might > not bother, because that's not enough data to be useful (depending on > exactly my use case). > > If it's an Atom feed with embedded MarcXML (and/or <link rel="alternate" > type="application/marcxml+xml" href="pointing to marcxml">)? Sure, and > there will be useful data in there, but certainly _everything_ useful OL > has can't fit into MarcXML, but it will take me less time to consume. > > If it's an Atom feed with embedded/linked custom OL XML schema including > all OL data, including workset relationships, whether the item is > available in fulltext and what the links to such fulltext are, etc? > Sure, I can consume this and probably would. > > I don't know if I'm the 'typical' library developer, don't take me as a > representative sample, but I can consume an Atom feed no problem -- the > question is if you pack enough data INTO that Atom feed to make it worth > my while for local needs. > > I've said all along that having data in MARC is very convenient, but not > neccesarily required, and having actual Z39.50 access is irrelevant to > me. But "Marc" and "Atom" are orthogonal to each other; you can > deliver Marc via Atom, or you can deliver somethign else via Atom. How > useful the "Atom" is to me depends on what you are delivering via it, > and how complete it is, and how easy to consume it is. > > Jonathan > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
