Jason Etheridge wrote:
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Geoff Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A web service of some sort (using RSS?) that would give a continual, nearly
real-time feed of changes to item availability status (whether it has been
checked out, moved to another location, etc.)
Hi Geoff,
Would you be more interested in specific item information or a more
general "Is anything available at the moment for this title and
library?" Both are available from REST-like services, but not
specifically as RSS, I don't believe. Are you more interested in
human-readable RSS that work just like search results or bookbags, or
something else
I wasn't thinking of tracking updates on a specific item, but changes to
all items in the catalogue. Something that would tell me, e.g.:
Item a was checked out at 2008-10-06 11:23:30
Item b was moved to the reserve location at 2008-10-06 11:23:35
Item c was checked in at 2008-10-06 11:23:37
Changes would be identified by item ID, and would be consumed by
discovery interfaces that already know a lot more about the items in
question, so it wouldn't be human readable as such. It doesn't have to
be RSS, but I would want a way to do frequent polling for the changes
from a given time.
Thanks!
Geoff
