Putting it back on the listserv in case others are interested, hope you don't mind. George asked for examples of my use.
Sure. It takes me a bit of time to find some, because honestly it's a minority of our catalog where I succesfully find matches in IA. And since it's just doing author/title matching, sometimes it's a false positive, so I need to find good matches for examples. Okay, here you go (our newly released public beta of a new catalog made it easier for me to find these, hooray). Again though, for various reasons this isn't actually using the OL API, it's using the IA advanced search atom results. The results are loaded in (from multiple sources including IA) via JS, you have to wait a moment for them to come in. In the link resolver: http://findit.library.jhu.edu/go/3082540 http://findit.library.jhu.edu/go/3082553 In the catalog: https://catalog.library.jhu.edu/bib/27678 https://catalog.library.jhu.edu/bib/32324 In our (just released) public beta demo of a new catalog: https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_27678 https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_32324 Note in the first example of "Shock at the front", I provide 'search inside' forms to Google Book Search and HathiTrust. (I also check Amazon and provide 'search inside' form to there where available). I'd like to be doing the same thing for IA, but last I looked into it there was no easy way to provide a predictable deep-link into 'search inside' results for a known IA title, that actually worked well. And definitely interested to hear any suggestions you have for improving the way I interface with IA, if you see anything that could be different, from what you can see in the UI. On 3/9/2011 12:53 PM, George Oates wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > Can you please point me at some URLs? I'd love to link to your work on our API > page, if that'd be alright with you? > > g > > On 3/7/11 11:34 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: >> I am consulting the IA/OL both for covers, and to determine full text hits. >> This >> shows up in my link resolver and in my catalog item detail pages, when a full >> text match can be found in IA for the item in consideration. >> >> However, I'm not actually using the OL API to find full text, I'm using the >> atom >> results of the IA 'advanced search', because I wrote it before the OL API >> works, >> it works, and it finds more full text from IA than is actually included in >> OL. >> >> Hmm, and I guess I'm not actually using covers at present. I am using the >> LibraryThing CoverThing API for covers, which I think is many of the same >> covers >> as IA/OL, but I'm not sure the relationship between them. >> >> Jonathan >> >> On 3/7/2011 2:21 PM, George Oates wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm writing to request some information from you... we don't specifically >>> track >>> external use of the Open Library API or data, but we're interested to know >>> who >>> is using us and how. >>> >>> If you have used the API or covers or are showing OL data on your site, >>> would >>> you be so kind as to reply to the list (or to me separately if you prefer) >>> with >>> links and/or any interesting background information you think is relevant? >>> >>> Thank you! >>> george >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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]
