Hi Folks,
The University Library at UNC-Chapel Hill has created an OCA API. We have
harvested (and continue to harvest) standard bibliographic identifiers and
link them to OCA identifiers. The API is deliberately modeled after
Google's for ease of implementation.
Here is a subjec search
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Emily Lynema [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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available. I have to admit it seems odd to me to include so much
attribute information in a single isbn element, but I suppose that
would be helpful in identifying what specific manifestation is being
referred to in
/details/biodiversity into
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
Chris
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Tim McCormick
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] musing on oca apiRe: [CODE4LIB] oca
apiRe: [CODE4LIB] oca api?
Howdy folks,
I've been playing and thinking. I'd like to have what amounts to a unique
identifier index to oca digitized texts. I want to be able to pull all the
records that have oclc numbers, issns, isbns, etc. I want it to be
lightweight, fast, searchable.
Would
On Mar 7, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Emily Lynema wrote:
Also, there was discussion about building an Open Library API (to
enable
some cool integration with wikipedia), and I suggested a that
libraries
using an API would want the search results to include information
about
whether the title has a
I see a whole lot of not invented here syndrome from IA, honestly.
They seem to want to re-invent everything themselves, rather than try to
use existing conventions. Even if they come up with something slightly
better than SRU, is it worth the pain to developers who would like to
implement
I want to be able to pull all the
records that have oclc numbers, issns, isbns, etc. I want it to be
lightweight, fast, searchable.
Would anyone else want/use such a thing?...
I like the idea, but in the long term, I just don't know how useful
this will be. By and large, these
Kyle Banerjee wrote:
I like the idea, but in the long term, I just don't know how useful
this will be. By and large, these identifiers are designed for dead
tree resources.
Only time will tell, but it's what we've got now, and I don't see our
existing legacy records going away. So we will
Kyle Banerjee wrote:
I want to be able to pull all the
records that have oclc numbers, issns, isbns, etc. I want it to be
lightweight, fast, searchable.
Would anyone else want/use such a thing?...
I like the idea, but in the long term, I just don't know how useful
this will be. By
Nope. ISBN was created in 1966. LCCNs exist for many resources
published before 1966. Even after 1966, not every single item that may
have been cataloged by the Library of Congress was neccesarily assigned
an ISBN by it's publisher
All true. What I meant was that _if_ an isbn exists
Tim, I think this is a fantastic idea and the only suggestion I would
make is to make sure you get on the Open Library developers list (I'm
looking for the URL... I'll email when I find it unless someone else
beats me to it) and discuss this there. (You may already have done
this, I don't know.)
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Jonathan Rochkind
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:18 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?
So in answer to my question here at the Code4Lib conference, after
Brewster's keynote, Brewster suggests
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Jonathan Rochkind
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?
So in answer to my question here at the Code4Lib conference, after
Brewster's keynote, Brewster suggests there are all sorts of interfaces
that none of us knew about
For some reason, the code4lib listservs reject my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail
(undoubtedly having to do with the domain name -- any ideas welcome) so I'll
try to keep track of the list from this account.
Meanwhile...
We talked about something like this at the Open Library meeting last Friday
in a
not be standards-based, but it works.
Chris
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From: Roy Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: 2/27/2008 5:28 AM
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So what, exactly, is open about this? Anyone care to guess?
Roy
On 2/26/08 10:29 AM, Chris
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So what, exactly, is open about this? Anyone care to guess?
Roy
On 2/26/08 10:29 AM, Chris Freeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My guess is that, yes
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?
So what, exactly, is open about this? Anyone care to guess?
Roy
On 2/26/08 10:29 AM, Chris Freeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My guess is that, yes, the query interface we've been discussing here
and the 'all sorts of interfaces that none of us knew
not be standards-based, but it works.
Chris
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From: Roy Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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So what, exactly, is open about this? Anyone care to guess?
Roy
On 2/26/08 10:29 AM
: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Steve Toub
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 8:41 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?
I'll add that when IA told me about
http://www.archive.org/services/search.php interface to return
XML, they asked that we
On Feb 26, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Chris Freeland wrote:
The biggest problem we found with the OAI implementation had to do
with
pulling incremental updates. If you ask for a date range like Dec
1 - 5
you get all of Dec. When we discussed this with IA we were shown the
query interface and just
an opportunity to
make a bunch of techies happy...
Chris
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Jonathan Rochkind
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 2:48 PM
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I hadn't known this custom
--- Tim Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm looking into tapping the texts in the Open Content Alliance.
A few questions...
As near as I can tell, they don't expose (perhaps even store?) any common
unique identifiers (oclc number, issn, isbn, loc number).
I poked around in
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Chris Freeland
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 11:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?
Steve Tim,
I'm the tech director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which
is a consortium of 10 natural history libraries who have
11:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?
Steve Tim,
I'm the tech director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which
is a consortium of 10 natural history libraries who have partnered with
Internet Archive (IA)/OCA for scanning our collections. We've just
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