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OCLC deserves some REST

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Hey Worldcat Identities you are doing awesome work–you deserve some REST. Why not use content-negotiation to serve up your HTML and XML representations? So: curl –header “Accept: text/html” http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/key/lccn-no99-10609 would return HTML and curl –header “Accept: application/xml” http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/key/lccn-no99-10609 would return XML. This would allow you to: not be limited to XSLT driven user views (doesn’t [...]

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oclc registry

Monday, February 19, 2007

So OCLC’s WorldCat Registry is a nice new addition to OCLCs growing list of web services. Do a search for your library and take a look at the URL: aye that’s right it’s SRU. In fact do a view source on the results page and you’ll see an SRU response in XML–the HTML is being [...]

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A Tale of Two Searches

Friday, August 19, 2005

There’s been some interesting discussion about SRW/U vs OpenSearch on some library email lists, blogs, and over in #code4lib. I worked on the SRU and CQL::Parser modules for the Ockham Initiative, and have watched the comparisons to A9′s RSS based OpenSearch with great interest. It’s amazing how similar the goals of these two search technologies [...]

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