Kommentare zu: Relevant APIs for (digital) libraries

Von: How to encode the availability of documents « Jakoblog — Das Weblog von Jakob Voß

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:51:21 +0000

[...] their official recommendation DAIA implements the GetAvailability method (section 6.3.1). There are numerous APIs for several tasks in library systems (SRU/SRW, Z39.50, OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, Atom, unAPI etc.) but [...]

Von: Working group on digital library APIs and possible outcomes « Jakoblog — Das Weblog von Jakob Voß

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:48:57 +0000

[...] Federation (DLF) formed the “ILS Discovery Interface Task Force“, a working group on APIs for digital libraries. See their agenda and the current draft recommendation (February, 15th) for details [via Panlibus]. [...]

Von: Peter Murray

Peter Murray — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:55:05 +0000

You might also consider NCIP and, albeit ad hoc, John Blyberg's PatREST (patron information via REST API).

Von: jakob

jakob — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:55:14 +0000

You are right, I changed the posting. SAML looks way to complex and reminds me on SOAP (which is bullshit for many simple applications), but I cannot judge because I do not know enough about it.

Von: till

till — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:19:21 +0000

Add CQL.
And still important: Z39.50 even though it’s not “web”/HTTP.
Identity Management: SAML and services using it (Shibboleth is one, but there are more, e.g. Liberty).