And beat Amazon at their own game...
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From Web4Lib Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:41:27 -0800 (PST)
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An 'international my-library bookmarklet service'
How hard could this be?
The browser already identifies the country of origin
Get the user to enter a zip/postal region code/locality
National libraries could have a 'resolver' that took the location and
forwards it on to the appropriate library.
This could be done internationally - all from the one
bookmarklet/embeddable bit of html ala Amazon.
I'm sorry - this doesn't seem that hard. It would be cheap to build and
inexpensive to run. Why weren't we doing this 5 years ago?
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005
OPEN API's for ILS(ILMS)
we could focus all of our various programming efforts on the greater good instead of just our own
-- Jenny, The Shifted Librarian
(from a web4lib posting)
Why don't we have a common API for all ILS(ILMS)? - and demand these of our ILS
vendors. (Libraries have always led the way in standards.)
What do
I've never written a standard before - does anyone have any idea how to go
about it? (Those ATOM people seemed to have had some success)
here goes - starting with simple ones;
1) Control Number Lookup (ISBN/ISSN etc.) to support services like
'Library Lookup' by John Udell
2) New Books see http://www.cdu.edu.au/library/rss.html / http://www.librarystuff.net/2005/01/more-library-rss-feeds.html
3) Items Out
> An example of what the itemsout feed address should look like is
http://phoenix.ntu.edu.au/rss/itemsout.jsp?barcode=123456&pin=mypassword
4) Search(es) ( a few common ones)
5) Request Item ...
[I'm sure others on this list can think of more]
* All of course with HTML or XML(RSS if appropriate) output options to
allow human and machine operation.
(X)HTML - I'd like the 'Items-Out' feed from Charles Darwin University to
generate HTML so I could just have it as a bookmark in my browser (Which
would be quicker when checking from my mobile phone - and easier for my
mum who doesn't use a RSS reader and is not interested)
XML(or RSS) - I'd like to be able to use services like LibraryElf
[http://www.libraryelf.com/] at my library.
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