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Library Data APIs Abound, Richard Wallis
28 Feb 07
Library Data APIs Abound!
Richard Wallis
Talis
http://www.talis.com/home/
libraries are used to obscure protocols, starting to use less obscure
all have an insular view of the world
– I have data, and you can have it if you use the right protocol
– mixing that data with other data is your problem
Talis platform uses Bigfoot
– easily queried
– can query bib data, pass search to augment search with holdings data, pass again to augment with deep linking to OPAC content and return results with links
– each “store” (bib, holdings, book jackets, etc.) has an API that can be search or used to augment
– can also augment XML data from other sources by transforming into a stream that can talk to API augmentation
Bigfoot APIs
– Items
– Augment
– Facet
– OAI-PMH (coming)
– Config (coming)
– On-demand stores (coming)
– transform service (built in to item query, coming for others)
Possibilities
– transform output to WordPress compatible output
c.f. the 20 minute union catalogue
Posted by pzed on February 28, 2007 at 2.10pm
Categories: code4lib 2007, conferences, libraries
