Developer
Network blog - http://t.co/vaNDsvw01w. Please send any questions or
comments via emails to devnet[at]oclc[dot]org
Karen
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Karen Coombs wrote:
> Thanks everyone for your helpful feedback on the PHP HTTP Client
> library. I ended up choosing Guzzle
I'm trying to mock HTTP requests for a code library I'm working on by using
the PHP-VCR library.
https://github.com/php-vcr/php-vcr
I'm having issues getting the tests to run against the mocks and was
wondering if anyone else has experience using this library. I think it is a
matching issue but c
Riley,
I have an BA in Anthropology and Music from a small liberal arts school as
well as my MLS and MS in Information Management from Syracuse University
While I sometime wish I took the computer science path, there are just as
many other times when I'm super grateful for my cultural anthropology
Jenn,
The WorldCat knowledge base has an API. For ebooks and ejournals should be
able to query the API by the ISBN/ISSN to see if there is a match in the
WorldCat knowledge base and the url(s) for that item. Before I joined OCLC,
I played with the idea of doing something similar to this using a
ja
I don't know what the Summon API uses to authenticate clients. It looks
from the Python code like a key and secret is involved. You should be care
about embedding these API credentials (key/secret) in a Javascript. This
makes them available for anyone copy and use.
Karen
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 4:
OCLC has been unable to update the xID API for several months. We strive
to provide accurate and up-to-date information for all of our users. OCLC
will continue to run xID through March 2016 to allow those who use it to
search for alternate solutions for their specific needs. Although we
appreciat
There is a bulk download of FAST as Linked Data at
http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/fast/download.html
Karen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Ed Summers wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Bill Dueber wrote:
> > Right -- I'd like to show the FAST stuff as facets in our catalog s
I don't have a standing desk either. However, I use a very large exercise
ball as my seat for part of the day. Makes you work on your core muscles
and posture.
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Peter Murray wrote:
> I don't have a standing desk, but I'm a big fan of using PVC pipe to put
> equipme
January 2004 according to the OCLC Research News Archive.
http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2004/01-26.html
Karen
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Bigwood, David wrote:
> On Catalogablog there is an posting on Tuesday, September 21, 2004.
>
> Sincerely,
> David Bigwood
>
>
>
> -Original Me
Ken,
I did a mashup that took Netflix's top 100 movies and looked to see if
a specific library had that item.
http://www.oclc.org/developer/applications/netflix-my-library
You might think about doing the following. Search WorldCat for titles
on a particular topic and then check to see if the titl
rface. I suspect you'd have to build a local cache of the OCLC data for
>> known Netflix items to do so, and maybe a local cache of the Netflix title
>> list. I wonder if either or both of those actions would violate the TOS for
>> the respective services.
>>
>&g
me.
Karen
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Karen Coombs wrote:
> Thanks Owen for the TOS info. The documentation
> (http://developer.netflix.com/docs/REST_API_Reference#jcs-2) is VERY
> confusing as to whether or not you can search for DVDs (not streaming)
> titles. They mention b
Thanks so much for all the feedback guys. Keep it coming. I'll
definitely check out Guzzle as an option.
Karen
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Hagedon, Mike
wrote:
> Guzzle++
>
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Eric,
There is a list of how VIAF does its accept/headers on the Developer
Network site that might be helpful.
http://www.oclc.org/developer/documentation/virtual-international-authority-file-viaf/using-api
I'm pointing you to this because there are are couple of different
possible ways to do HT
Owen,
It is probably worth looking at the work of ILS Interoperability group
which is has adopted the XC NCIP Toolkit to try to provide access to
ILS data like Availability. The group is very active right now and
trying to get people to build connectors for the toolkit and improve
existing code. I
Tennant, Senior Program Officer for OCLC Research will kick off the
session. OCLC Developer Network manager Karen Coombs and OCLC Research
engineer Bruce Washburn will present, walk participants through building a
simple sample application and be available for questions and breakout
facilitation
Thanks for posting this Jodi! I've been trying to use this API for a
while and this makes it a lot easier.
Karen
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Jodi Schneider wrote:
> The Guardian has added ISBN's to their API; you can get bookreviews. See
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform/blog/refere
I wrote an article on a project I did in this area back 5 years ago
when I worked for SUNY Cortland. The citation is Coombs, K. A (2005)
"Lessons Learned From Analyzing Library Database Usage Data" Library
Hi Tech 23(4), 598-609.
We were looking at paths users were taking to get to electronic
reso
Peter,
I've got some experience doing this type of thing. First, with the
LITA BIGWIG Social Software Showcase and then later with OCLC
Developer Network. Because members of our community aren't always able
to come talk about their projects, we've been trying to increase the
type of this we've bee
I believe that there has been discussion of adding facets to SRU
responses in the past. It may even be part of the standard now I'm not
sure.
Facets in an SRU and/or Atom response would certainly be of interest
to OCLC. Another area where it might be nice to consider collaborating
is on a format f
Ed,
oXygen XML editor will let you easily make XML from an Excel file. I
think you might even be able to control the names of the elements. I'd
probably use this plus an XSLT to get things into the OAI-DC format.
Karen
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Edward M. Corrado wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I
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Graham,
I'd advocate using WorldCat Identities to get to the appropriate url
for dbpedia. Each Identity record has a wikipedia element in it that
you could use to link to either Wikipedia or dbpedia.
If you want to see an example of this in action you can check out the
Author Info demo I did for
.com/openlibrary/openlibrary/tree/master/openlibrary/catalog/wikipedia
>
> It, however, runs against dumps rather than an API.
>
> kc
>
> Quoting Karen Coombs :
>
>> Graham,
>>
>> I'd advocate using WorldCat Identities to get to the appropriate url
>> f
ishing, and Ancient Slavery Disapproved of by God - ie an amalgamation
> of the various most famous people known by this name.
>
> I guess this is just a hard problem overall.
>
> Graham
>
>
>
> On 05/19/11 14:56, Karen Coombs wrote:
>> Graham,
>>
>> I'd
Ethan,
Documentation on the web service part of VIAF is up on the OCLC
Developer Network site at -
http://www.oclc.org/developer/documentation/virtual-international-authority-file-viaf/using-api
To get XML back for the query you sent just add &httpAccept=text/xml
on the end of the query.
This wi
me directly.
Karen
Karen Coombs
Product Manager
OCLC Developer Network
coom...@oclc.org
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Ed Summers wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Godmar Back wrote:
>> Closer to the code4lib community: OCLC and Serials Solutions don't support
>>
There are lots of libraries using OCLC's different web services. You
can see some examples by going to
http://www.oclc.org/developer/applications . The Developer Network
also provides many code examples using the various web services via
our Subversion repository -
http://worldcat.org/devnet/code/d
You might check out MapFast -
http://experimental.worldcat.org/mapfast/ which was built by OCLC
Research.
Karen
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Julia Bauder wrote:
> Dear fans of cool Web-ness,
>
> I'm looking for examples of projects that use visual(=largely non-text and
> non-numeric) interfa
I know many of the subscribers to this list may not be attending ALA.
However, I wanted to let everyone know about a unique event happening this
year.
BIGWIG (Blogs, Interactive Groupware, and Wikis Interest Group of LITA) will
be hosting two virtual discussions as part of this year's Social Soft
Paul,
Thanks for the pointer to the great post!
I've been thinking similar things and am starting some beginning plans here.
Our biggest challenge is actually getting our hands on an iPhone because
there are some issues with the university paying for monthly cell phone
plan. So we thought we'd tr
same access I have at my desk
> at home.
>
> kc
>
> Karen Coombs wrote:
>> Paul,
>>
>> Thanks for the pointer to the great post!
>>
>> I've been thinking similar things and am starting some beginning plans here.
>> Our biggest challenge is actuall
Genny,
I second Casey's comments. One thing that makes Wordpress great is the
variety of plugins. For people using WebEvent it will be very helpful, but
it will also give other people ideas about other calendar widgets they might
want to build.
Karen
On 11/6/08 8:42 AM, "Casey Bisson" <[EMAIL P
Yes, the WorldCat Search API offers MARCXML. It is a bear to work with,
which is why MODS seems like a slightly better route. Smarter than DC but
not has beastly as MARCXML. I actually don't anything from the MARC fixed
fields right now. So the fact that that information is missing isn't a
problem.
We're working the nearly identical problem. If you want I can post the code
to the list when we've completed it.
Karen
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Phone: (713) 743-3713
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Email: kacoo.
Ethan,
In PHP5 you can do Xpath on non-XHTML HTML. You just need to set it to
ignore the errors. I discovered this when trying to do some screen scraping.
The HH I found helpful is at
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2004_06_23_index.html#108802750834787821
Now sure it is helpful to you, but I thou
Eric,
What's great about some of these systems is that there are modules written
to do exactly what you are talking about. For example there is a Drupal
module that will allow to export your Wordpress site and import it into
Drupal. Most of the PHP/MySQL CMSs I've played with have an underlying
fr
Ken,
I've written a bunch of code that takes advantage of JQuery to do nice
things with OCLC web services. There are several posts on my blog (
http://www.librarywebchic.net) about my projects as well as some code
samples. I second the recommendation for you to check out JQuery-UI. It is
really gr
Bill,
I believe that rel="alternate" would be valid to use for the RIS formats. I
means it is used for RSS and Atom feeds which can be varying levels of
completeness compared to the original web site they represent.
Karen
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Bill Dueber wrote:
> I didn't put in li
Eric,
Based on the fact that presentation acceptances/rejections have gone out,
I'm fairly sure that a program and registration should be coming out soon. I
attended last year as well and it was a great conference. Lots of fun and
small.
Karen
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Eric Lease Morgan
hem at production level. Thank for your understanding,
Karen Coombs
OCLC Developer Network Manager
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From: Ya'aqov Ziso
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:32:20 -0400
To:
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Kar
> attempts and|or baubles, and learned the difference between ³beta²
> and ³experimental². As we all go through this learning experience, in this
> case partnering with OCLC Research, we wish to grow successful.
>
> Ya¹aqov Ziso, Electronic Resource Management Librarian, Rowan University 856
To offer a counterpoint to no PHP folks, One reason I like PHP is because
right now its pretty much essential to know if you are using open source web
applications like MediaWiki, Wordpress or Drupal. I feel like Javascript is
also a must for web work. Personally, I'm also a fan of XSLT to do
trans
Have you looked the the citation microformat (
http://microformats.org/wiki/citation) ? Don't know where work with this
stands but it seems pretty interesting to me.
Karen
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Mark A. Matienzo wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Tim Spalding
> wrote:
> > I'd
David,
There is also Pazpar2 from IndexData - http://www.indexdata.com/pazpar2
and dBWiz (which is pretty old) - http://dbwiz.lib.sfu.ca/dbwiz/
We implemented LibraryFind and used it for several years at University of
Houston. I left there in January and think that they were looking at other
opt
could
provide more information.
Karen
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, David Kane wrote:
> Thanks Karen,
>
> My understanding is that Dbwiz is no longer being supported, or something,
> which is unfortunate.
>
> Do all of these do article-level search?
>
> David.
>
&
Since this year's code4lib, the ILS Interop group has been working on
the problem of facilitating better communication between ILS systems
and external software like next generation discovery systems. Our
goal is to build on the findings of the earlier DLF ILS-DI group and
assist in the implementa
I agree with Mark that the Biblio module would be really good for
this. I'm using it on a project right now to keep track of
publications related to particular OCLC Web services. Can add
additional fields with CCK if you want. Can create different displays
with Views. Should be able to expose the d
I don't know if this would be of interest or not. A somewhat related
project is a Wordpress plugin that an intern that worked for the OCLC
Developer Network last fall wrote. The plugin allows you to search
WorldCat when you are creating a post or page in Wordpress and choose
items to add to that po
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> -Original Message-
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> Coombs
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cular use case you're trying to support? Know that
would help us document this as a possible enhancement.
Karen
Karen Coombs
Senior Product Analyst
Web Services
OCLC
coom...@oclc.org
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Arash.Joorabchi wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
>
>
> I am a SRU newbie my
Karen,
Unfortunately it looks like you requested a key for the WorldCat
Search API which does have specific eligibility criteria. The WorldCat
Basic API which Ross mentions is available to anyone -
http://www.oclc.org/developer/services/worldcat-basic-api
It allows you to do an OpenSearch keyword
Eric,
The default Service Level for WorldCat Search API doesn't include the
Library of Congress Call number (050)
However, you can make this type of request at the full Service Level
and get this information.
For example
http://www.worldcat.org/webservices/catalog/content/55679231?wskey=[yourke
Hi,
I'm not getting the appropriate hotel rate when I go to the link provided.
Anyone else seeing the same thing?
Karen
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Park,Go-Woon wrote:
> Yes! Completed!
>
So the xISBN service will give you the workset and basic metadata about
each item in that workset.
http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/0596002815?method=getEditions&format=xml&fl=*
You can get 1000 request/day without even having to get an affiliate ID.
Another possibility is the inli
means I can start programming and testing without the affiliate ID, and
> then once I've got one, I can stop worrying about getting throttled right
> when things are getting exciting.
>
> - David
> On Jan 22, 2013 1:07 PM, "Karen Coombs" wrote:
>
> > So the x
There is a ton of information you can get from your proxy server logs about
database usage that goes way beyond the simple usage statistics. I had an
article in Library Hi Tech published on the topic.
Coombs, K. A (2005) ³Lessons Learned From Analyzing Library Database Usage
Data² Library Hi Tech
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone had experience installing the digital library
software Fedora version 2.1 . I'm trying to get it setup here and am having
problems when I start the fedora server. I get the following error message
in my log files.
http://dlrg.cornell.edu/logging/SimpleXMLFormatter/1/
Nathan,
I've played with a bunch of tools on the Mac. I use iShowU to make my
screencasts, edit them in Quicktime and then will use VisualHub to translate
from one format to another. That is if iShowU or Quicktime won't give me the
format I want to end up with. I like iShowU because you can con
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I believe that LibraryFind includes COinS but they aren't working quite
right in the current version. If the COinS were working correctly (which
they are supposed to in the next version) then Zotero would read them and
allow you to import results. I don't know of anyone who has added a citation
exp
Metadata Coordinator
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Services, this position will identify and coordinate the application of
appropriate descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata schemas for
digitized and born-digital materials; oversee documentation,
I love and use oss4lib but it doesn't by any means provide some things I'd
like when it comes to open source software in libraries. I hope that this
new effort can collaborate with the oss4lib folks and build new things and
meet needs that perhaps oss4lib hasn't met yet. I'd also encourage these
fo
There are some very useful things one can get back from III via Z39.50.
Terry Resse from OSU showed me that if you send a Z39.50 request for the
"opac" syntax you can actually get back holdings information and whether or
not something is checked out. I had no trouble playing around with this via
th
Let's be realistic here, many of us who are an III sites didn't arrive here
until LONG after the decision was made on an ILS. Given how much flux
libraries are in today it is very realistic for a library to shift
priorities and go from few or no developers to a reasonable development
staff. This is
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> David Walker
> Library Web Services Manager
> California State University
> http://xerxes.calstate.edu
>
>
>
> From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Karen Coombs
> Sent: Thu 5/15/2008 10:03 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Life
Eric,
WorldCat Metadata API provides read and write API access to the data in
WorldCat: bibliographic records, local bibliographic data and basic
holdings. WorldCat Discovery API provides access to search WorldCat and
OCLC's Central Index of metadata based on a diverse set of indexes. Data is
retu
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