Free the Data: creating a web services interface to the online catalog – Emily Lynema
2007 February 28
Free the Data: creating a web services interface to the online catalog – Emily Lynema
Look for holding availability
CatalogWS
- REST web API for dynamically querying information from the NCSU Libraries Catalog
Motivations
- Initial impetus – 2 requests
- Can we have RSS feeds for the catalog?
- Can we integrate catalog results into library
Using the service
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalogws/?
Parameters
- service
- query
- output
- count
- offset
- sort
- style
XML Response
- Defined with Relax NG Schema
- Data from search results page
- Search information
- Results
- Facets
Services on top of XML
- RSS
- OpenSearch
- role=subset
- Extended OpenSearch parameters to createa face parameter for use in the Open Search URL template