Re: [CODE4LIB] EZB

2011-02-17 Thread Inga Overkamp
Markus Fischer wrote: [...] I am not aware of an API that let's you synchronize holdings registration automatically. Intersting idea anyhow. But you may do an export of your holdings, so this may work in the other direction. According to my information, an 'inbound' API was developed with su

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZB

2011-02-17 Thread Markus Fischer
No english documentation to my knowledge. If you want to become a member of the EZB you pay a small fee for their infrastructure and their staff maintaing the database. It's around 500 EUR a year. Very valuable! I am not aware of an API that let's you synchronize holdings registration automa

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZB

2011-02-17 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
No documentation in English, huh? This is a very interesting service I had not previously been aware of, indeed quite powerful. It's free for libraries to register their own holdings with EZB? Even American libraries? Does the API by chance cover that registration of holdings too, so softwar

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZB

2011-02-17 Thread Markus Fischer
Linking is dependent on the request and the technical possibilities of the targeted publisher. Very often on article level. Were not possible on journal level. The things the EZB can't do is resolve identifiers like PMIDs, DOIs, SICI numbers. But you can do that easily by writing your own appl

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZB

2011-02-17 Thread Ross Singer
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > Interesting, does their link resolver API do article-level links, or just > journal title level links? > > I/you/one could easily write a plugin for Umlaut for their API, would be an > interesting exersize. I think it would also be inte

[CODE4LIB] EZB

2011-02-17 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Interesting, does their link resolver API do article-level links, or just journal title level links? I/you/one could easily write a plugin for Umlaut for their API, would be an interesting exersize. On 2/17/2011 1:18 AM, Markus Fischer wrote: The cheapest and best A to Z list i know is the g