Quoting George Oates <[email protected]>: > 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?
I believe that this is the spec that the Archive is looking at in terms of using Atom to "feed" information about books: http://code.google.com/p/openpub/wiki/CatalogSpecDraft And that's the extent of my knowledge, if I am right. Good luck! :-) kc > > 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] > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ 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]
