Hi Anand and Open Library folks. I recently discussed with Anand that I am writing the next version of OpenBook and want to upgrade to the most appropriate Open Library APIs.
Anand, you recommended that I use the Books API, a client-side method using JavaScript. I indicated that I wanted to use a server-side method so that the HTML is discoverable by search crawlers. You offered to make a server-side version of the Books API. That sounds good. However, as I look at the Books API documentation, I see that the details section contains only a subset of the available data. OpenBook currently allows users to display many data elements from Open Library that are missing from the Books API details. Question 1. Will you be adding all data elements to details section of the Books API? Maybe some are not "stable" enough for the API details. If so, which ones? Question 2. Also, if I should be using the Books API, why does your documentation say that the RESTful is best for linking to Open Library? Thanks, John _______________________________________________ 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]
