For the DLF Aquifer portal (http://www.dlfaquifer.org/), we have
implemented unAPI as follows.
In the html head there is a link:
<link rel="unapi-server" type="application/xml" title="unAPI"
href="http://www.dlfaquifer.org/unapi"; />
which identifies the base URL for the unAPI service, then throughout
various web pages we have abbr tags, such as this:
<abbr class='unapi-id' title='251639'></abbr>
My understanding is that an unAPI processor should take the base URL
from the link and concatenate the title value from the abbr to create
the URL used to retrieve first the list of formats available:
http://www.dlfaquifer.org/unapi?id=251639
And then create another URL to retrieve the specific format of interest,
such as this:
http://www.dlfaquifer.org/unapi?id=251639&format=mods
What Chad has described might also work, but I know that the above does
work with Zotero, at least.
Kind regards,
Tom
Chad Fennell wrote:
On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
I've looked at unAPI, but I can't get a handle on what needs to be in
the <abbr>. What would be useful?
kc
I put together a pretty basic unAPI interface (technically, a Drupal
module) for our EthicShare project; you can see how the <abbr> tags are
used there. Ex:
http://ethicshare.org/publications/ethics?sc=publications
embedded on the page, you'll find things like: <abbr class='unapi-id'
title='http://ethicshare.org/unapi/374360'>
There are a few other pieces, but you can see these in action there as
well. Ex,
http://ethicshare.org/unapi/ -tells clients what formats are available
on the sever - I've only implemented RIS so far...
http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360 - tells the client what formats
are available for a given resource.
http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360&format=ris - kind of
self-explanatory.
Hope that helps a little...
Cheers,
-Chad
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Thomas G. Habing
Research Programmer
Grainger Engineering Library Information Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
