A post from Ben Ostrowsky came across planet.code4lib.org a couple days ago, and I thought I’d mention that we have something similar to the idea presented there. Basically, Ben wants to give patrons the option of having a hold request filled by any title in a work-set based on OCLC’s xISBN service.
First a little background. Si [...]
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Metarecord Holds (and a plug for oISB...
A post from Ben Ostrowsky came across planet.code4lib.org a couple days ago, and I thought I’d mention that we have something similar to the idea presented there. Basically, Ben wants to give patrons the option of having a hold request filled by any title in a work-set based on OCLC’s xISBN service.
First a little background. Si [...]
Quick SuperCat update
What its web API can do today:
REST retrieval of bibliographic records as MARCXML, MODS, atom entry, rss item, oai_dc, srw_dc and rdf_dc, as well as OPAC redirection
unAPI retrieval in formats above
OpenSearch 1.0 and 1.1, and OSD generation (yes, generation — replace the dash in those URLs with title, author, subject or series to get [...]
print “Achtung!\n”x3;
I’ve been particularly productive today, at least as far as externally visible services are concerned. SuperCat is proving to be a mighty beast, and is now the basis of three (count ‘em, three) shiny new web APIs.
UPDATE: Bill and I set up the services described here on our externally accessible dev server. The URLs in the body [...]
Record groups? We got your record gr...
While we don’t have the many millions of records that OCLC does (what, 60M+?), we do have a local database to play with, an extensible ILS, and the desire to do fun stuff like OCLC does. So, I wrote an xISBN clone while working on the open-ils.supercat OpenSRF application. Instead of grouping records into FRBR work-sets, we group reco [...]