Library Cataloging
DAIA, the Document Availability Information API provides a method of showing the availability of an item.
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Library Cataloging
Item Availability Information
DAIA, the Document Availability Information API provides a method of showing the availability of an item.
DAIA is a data model to express information about the availability of documents and their particular copies for library-related services (loan, local presentation, open access online, interlibrary loan...). Its specification (http://purl.org/NET/DAIA) includes serialization in XML, JSON and RDF - use the format of your choice and get the other serializations for free.
If you are happy with stuff like NCIP, SLNP, SIP2, Z39.50 Holdings, ISO 20775 Holdings than I wonder why. But if you like to decouple and open up your library system for better innovation that you might want to have a look. Additional services like "Tweet-me-if-the-book-is-back" should be easy to implement by third parties based on a common, well-defined availability API (/end-of-advertisement)
The current SVN repository contains the existing Perl implementation (that you can also get via CPAN), an implementation in PHP and an XSLT client for DAIA/XML. The VuFind project also contains a DAIA-Driver as client component.
Feedback is very welcome, feel free to join. The project mailing list is https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/daia-devel (don't be confused that the first mail is in German, we also know English).
So how do you get availability information out of your library system?
- Booktour
Here is a very useful website for book-lovers, BookTour. Shows what authors are speaking in an area.We're a free online service that connects authors and potential audiences of all sorts, from book groups to civic organizations, from bookstores to...
- Onix
When I noted the revision to the ONIX standard I asked if anyone has access to ONIX records or are they hidden behind firewalls at the publisher's sites. LC has access, but I've not heard from anyone that a publisher is making their ONIX records...
- Open Source Library System
WEBLIS, an Integrated Library System based on CDS/ISIS, is available free of charge from UNESCO and ICIE.The current version of WEBLIS, available in English, consists of the following modules:Cataloguing system (books, papers from book, papers from journals,...
- Open Source Library System, Koha
The Nelsonville, Ohio, Public Library has recently announced that they will be migrating to Koha, a GPL'd library software system which is written in Perl. They have decided to contribute to the ongoing development of Koha and have released an RFP...
- Resource Description Framework
The RDF Primer is an introduction to this possibly important standard."The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language for representing information in the World Wide Web. It is particularly intended for representing metadata about...