I wrote a little XSLT and was able to generate a first pass at openurl microformatted pages from the Ann Arbor District Library’s catalog.

Grab http://www.superpatron.com/aadl-openurl.xsl as the stylesheet, and then apply it to http://www.superpatron.com/aadlexample.xml to see what it looks like. I didn’t get the COINS stuff working on a first go-around, but it should be straightforward enough.

A few things were funky. The AADL REST interface (see Blyberg’s blog for details) doesn’t have a separate “publication year” field, rather putting it formatted in the “pubinfo” field. The “author” field I get easily is a string like “Vielmetti, Edward 1964-” rather than “Edward Vielmetti”. But it looks like it generates something reasonable.

A second pass at doing this against a bigger catalog would be to do a similar transform against SRU so that you could snag these records from e.g. the Library of Congress.