Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-20 Thread Ross Singer
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: If someone else were getting started and didn't want to assemble their own training data -- do you think it would be likely useful for them to aggregate your training data _and_ Brown's training data together and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-19 Thread Ross Singer
The training data is not currently under source control (it's in the database), but the trained model is. That's, admittedly, a bit of a downside to my fork (although the model being checked into git is true of the original, as well) since you'd always be in conflict with my trained model if you

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-19 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
If someone else were getting started and didn't want to assemble their own training data -- do you think it would be likely useful for them to aggregate your training data _and_ Brown's training data together and generate a new model? Was there a particular reason you chose not to use Brown's

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-14 Thread Michel, Jason Paul
Hey Will! Excellent work as always. Thanks! Jason On 10/13/11 5:33 PM, Will Kurt wck...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Jason! I always think that Brown's FreeCite api is under utilized. http://freecite.library.brown.edu/ It's far from perfect, but I'm sure more use could be made of it. A few months

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-13 Thread Will Kurt
Hey Jason! I always think that Brown's FreeCite api is under utilized. http://freecite.library.brown.edu/ It's far from perfect, but I'm sure more use could be made of it. A few months back I threw together a copy/paste citation look-up with it: CiteBox http://willkurt.github.com/CiteBox/ Of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-13 Thread Avram Lyon
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Will Kurt wck...@gmail.com wrote: I always think that Brown's FreeCite api is under utilized. http://freecite.library.brown.edu/ It's far from perfect, but I'm sure more use could be made of it. A few months back I threw together a copy/paste citation look-up

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-13 Thread Ross Singer
Yeah, we've been doing a lot with (and putting a lot of updates into) FreeCite. We only use the webservice (although we don't use the OpenURL context object and instead added a JSON response). It works pretty well (not always great, but certainly better than nothing) - especially for giving us

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-13 Thread Avram Lyon
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, we've been doing a lot with (and putting a lot of updates into) FreeCite.  We only use the webservice (although we don't use the OpenURL context object and instead added a JSON response).  It works pretty well (not

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-12 Thread Emily Lynema
Some folks have mentioned library-created APIs in this thread. A couple of staff here at NCSU Libraries wrote up a piece in the Code4Lib Journal (wow! back in 2007!) about the API we created for our catalog years ago and still use very heavily (for several apps not even developed yet when that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-12 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
On 10/12/2011 11:14 AM, Emily Lynema wrote: Tempted to use Serials Solutions' 360 Link API to create our own version of the service window interface, but we've managed not to do that yet! If you decide to, consider using Umlaut as a platform!

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-11 Thread Walker, David
We use a number of web services provided by our (often vendor-supplied) library systems. Those include: Metalib, SFX, bX, and Voyager. We've also worked with Ebsco, Summon, Primo/Primo Central, and Worldcat APIs. --Dave - David Walker Library Web Services Manager California

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-11 Thread Steve Meyer
We are also using our ILS's APIs to do things like display checked out items and library fines or initiate ILL requests in systems that are not our ILS. It is also worth noting that Solr and Fedora, two stalwarts of the 21st century discovery and repository systems are pretty much user

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-10 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi, At the American Numismatic Society (A LAM/academic research organization), we're using APIs for: geonames.org (geographic places) viaf.org (personal and corporate names) flickr id.loc.gov (Atom feed for LCSH) google docs Atom feed We're looking into Worldcat APIs and have developed some of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-10 Thread Joshua Welker
Michael, I am in the process of adding book descriptions, reviews, and jacket images to our III WebPAC using the Google Books API. We also use Twitter and LibGuides APIs. Josh Welker Electronic/Media Services Librarian College Liaison University Libraries Southwest Baptist University

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-10 Thread Parker, Anson (adp6j)
We're using thompson reuters api for impact factors... It is awful, dated, and fairly useless in my opinion.. A chore to work with too On 10/10/11 1:06 PM, Joshua Welker jwel...@sbuniv.edu wrote: Michael, I am in the process of adding book descriptions, reviews, and jacket images to our

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-10 Thread Karen Coombs
There are lots of libraries using OCLC's different web services. You can see some examples by going to http://www.oclc.org/developer/applications . The Developer Network also provides many code examples using the various web services via our Subversion repository -

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-09 Thread Michel, Jason Paul
Bill, Excellent. Thanks so much for the insight. We're utilizing the HathiTrust BibAPI as wellŠ Jason On 10/8/11 7:02 PM, Bill Dueber b...@dueber.com wrote: The HathiTrust BibAPI and DataAPIs are being used by several on this list (and by me behind the scenes on occasion, although I sometimes

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-08 Thread Patrick Berry
We're (CSU, Chico) using http://code.google.com/p/googlebooks/ to provide easy access to partial and full text books. On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Michel, Jason Paul miche...@muohio.eduwrote: Hello all, I'm a lurker on this listserv and am interested in gaining some insight into your

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-08 Thread Michel, Jason Paul
I'll take a look. Thanks so much, Patrick. On 10/8/11 1:40 PM, Patrick Berry pbe...@gmail.com wrote: We're (CSU, Chico) using http://code.google.com/p/googlebooks/ to provide easy access to partial and full text books. On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Michel, Jason Paul

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-08 Thread Michel, Jason Paul
Patrick - What ILS are you using? On 10/8/11 1:40 PM, Patrick Berry pbe...@gmail.com wrote: We're (CSU, Chico) using http://code.google.com/p/googlebooks/ to provide easy access to partial and full text books. On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Michel, Jason Paul miche...@muohio.eduwrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-08 Thread Godmar Back
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Patrick Berry pbe...@gmail.com wrote: We're (CSU, Chico) using http://code.google.com/p/googlebooks/ to provide easy access to partial and full text books. Good to hear. As an aside, we wrote up some background on how to use widgets and webservices in a 2010

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-08 Thread Michel, Jason Paul
Thanks, Godmar. I'll take a look at that... On Oct 8, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Godmar Back god...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Patrick Berry pbe...@gmail.com wrote: We're (CSU, Chico) using http://code.google.com/p/googlebooks/ to provide easy access to partial and full text

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-08 Thread Bill Dueber
The HathiTrust BibAPI and DataAPIs are being used by several on this list (and by me behind the scenes on occasion, although I sometimes cheat because the data are local). Based on our logs, the most common use is to use the BibAPI to check HT availability of an item already in someone's local

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic Public Libraries

2011-10-08 Thread Patrick Berry
Via mobile keyboard On Oct 8, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Michel, Jason Paul miche...@muohio.edu wrote: Patrick - What ILS are you using? On 10/8/11 1:40 PM, Patrick Berry pbe...@gmail.com wrote: We're (CSU, Chico) using http://code.google.com/p/googlebooks/ to provide easy access to partial