> Nope, been around for over a year now. See: > http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/restful_api.
Nine months, but close enough. :-) Don't know how I didn't catch this before. http://blog.openlibrary.org/2009/08/11/api-with-rdfxml-output-available/ > Now the actual data is stored on the back-end as a JSON blob; I can't > speak to whether /all/ of the data from the blob gets reported in the > RDF (I suspect it does not, for in many instances there is data in the > blob that is not identified in the schema definition) but it may be all > you need. This particular use of RDF is interesting, as is how it maps from whatever internal JSON format it's stored in (OL devs: love to know more about how you're doing this). The use of DCTERMS elements is a bit curious: eg. dcterms:tableOfContents isn't used; dcterms:identifier includes a leading "/books/"; dcterms:subject is used instead of dc:subject for the rdf-bound DDC and LCC values, etc. I'm assuming this is a combination of it being a "simple" mapping and my weak knowledge of RDF. Overall though, looks great. I don't quite follow how the query API works for, say, free-text search (if such is even possible), though. An endpoint like that could provide a decent replacement for Z39.50-style search/retrieve if mapped in a way like Dan describes. MJ _______________________________________________ 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]
