On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Ross Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Theoretically you should be able to also pass the argument
record_type=dc or record_type=marc to give you dublin core or marc21,
but there seems to be a bug there. I'll fix that today.
Bah, this actually did work, I just
[ this discussion may be a bit too detailed for the general readership of
code4lib; readers not interested in the upcoming WC search API may wish to
skip... ]
Roy,
Atom/RSS are simply the container formats used to return multiple items of
some kind --- I'm curious about what those items contain.
Godmar,
I'm one of the developers working on the WorldCat API. My take is that
the API is evolving and adapting as we learn more about how it's
expected to be used. We haven't precluded the addition of more record
metadata to OpenSearch responses; we opted not to implement it until we
had more
In general, is there a reason to have different metadata formats from
SRU vs OpenSearch? Is there a way to just have the same metadata formats
available for each? Or are the demands of each too different to just use
the same underlying infrastructure, such that it really does take more
work to
I too find this decision intriguing, and I'm wondering about its wider
implications on the use of RSS/Atom as a container format inside and
outside the context of OpenSearch as it relates to library systems.
I note that an OpenSearch description does not allow you to specify
type of the items
Actually, regarding this very point...
One of the outcomes of Jangle is that I'd like to create a registry
(like, say, a SKOS vocabulary) that defines an identifier for an
agreed upon record format. You point out that conneg doesn't work for
Atom or RSS payloads, but it wouldn't work, anyway.
Wow, I'm coming into this thread late ...
To answer Godmar up-thread, Evergreen's OpenSearch service returns
data in more than 15 formats, including MARCXML and MODS. It was
actually the first ILS to do so (with the exception of Ross's Voyager
add-on), and also the first ILS to have an unAPI
I believe WorldCat qualifies, although the API is not yet ready for general
release (but soon):
http://worldcat.org/devnet/index.php/SearchAPIDetails
Roy
On 6/23/08 6/23/08 8:55 PM, Godmar Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
are there any examples of functioning OpenSearch interfaces to
Thanks --- let me do some query refinement then -- does anybody know of
examples where record metadata (e.g., MARCXML or DC) is returned as an
OpenSearch response? [ If I understand the proposed Worldcat API correctly,
OpenSearch is used only for pre-formatted citations in HTML. ]
- Godmar
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