Re: [CODE4LIB] Works API

2010-04-02 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Emily Lynema emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu: Karen, Is it just Open Library that is excluding serials, or is that the entire OCA project? I think the OCA was focused on monographs but did allow in some serials, possibly because it wasn't clear what they were (as it can be with bound or

Re: [CODE4LIB] Works API

2010-03-31 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, stuart yeates wrote: Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Karen Coyle wrote: The OL only has full text links, but the link goes to a page at the Internet Archive that lists all of the available formats. I would prefer that the link go directly to a display of the book, and offer

Re: [CODE4LIB] Works API

2010-03-30 Thread Ed Summers
I realize it's of limited utility compared to yet another web2.0 API, but I think it would be good to see Works represented somehow in the RDF Linked Data views...assuming they're not already. //Ed On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Open Library now has Works

Re: [CODE4LIB] Works API

2010-03-30 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Ed Summers e...@pobox.com: I realize it's of limited utility compared to yet another web2.0 API, but I think it would be good to see Works represented somehow in the RDF Linked Data views...assuming they're not already. //Ed Ed, thanks. I'll need you to be a bit more -v on this one:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Works API

2010-03-30 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Ed, thanks. I'll need you to be a bit more -v on this one: are you asking for a an RDF option on the API, or that Works as a whole be represented as linked data? The Open Library doesn't present itself as linked data, as you

Re: [CODE4LIB] Works API

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Noerr
For our purposes (federated search) it would be most useful to have as many of the available links (OL or other) as possible, and as much information about the link as possible. Obvious structural stuff like the type of identifier, but also the nature of the linked object (as you suggest full

Re: [CODE4LIB] Works API

2010-03-30 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Peter Noerr pno...@museglobal.com: For our purposes (federated search) it would be most useful to have as many of the available links (OL or other) as possible, and as much information about the link as possible. Obvious structural stuff like the type of identifier, but also the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Works API

2010-03-30 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Karen Coyle wrote: The OL only has full text links, but the link goes to a page at the Internet Archive that lists all of the available formats. I would prefer that the link go directly to a display of the book, and offer other formats from there (having to click twice really turns people

Re: [CODE4LIB] Works API

2010-03-30 Thread stuart yeates
Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Karen Coyle wrote: The OL only has full text links, but the link goes to a page at the Internet Archive that lists all of the available formats. I would prefer that the link go directly to a display of the book, and offer other formats from there (having to click

Re: [CODE4LIB] Works API

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Noerr
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Works API Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Karen Coyle wrote: The OL only has full text links, but the link goes to a page at the Internet Archive that lists all of the available formats. I would prefer that the link go directly to a display of the book