Library Cataloging
Noncommercial APIs
The ProgrammableWeb points to a post by Dan Cohen over at George Mason University that looked that the APIs listed and asked a good question: Where Are the Noncommercial APIs?. If you know of any get them listed there. Maybe the unAPI will help more noncommercial, and smaller institutions get into the game.
unAPI
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Institutional Repositories
Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite, the latest Digital Scholarship publication, is designed to give the reader a very quick introduction to key aspects of institutional repositories and to foster further exploration of this topic though liberal...
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Apifinder
APIFinder is a growing index of various application programming interfaces (APIs). An API provides a set of instructions that you can use to make new software interoperate with existing applications. This site is also a place to share ideas and advice...
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Easy Unapi
The paper I mentioned yesterday, Introducing unAPI, has a couple of easy ways to get started using unAPI.If you are using Wordpress for your weblog, there is a plug-in.The plug-in provides records for each WordPress post and page in the following formats:...
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Greesemonkey Script For Unapi
Alf Eaton has put together a Greasemonkey script for unAPI.unAPI, the lightweight mechanism for retrieving objects or their metadata in different formats, reached version 1 a few weeks ago, and has been implemented in HubMed and other places already....
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Unapi
APIs are a great way to share metadata, one thing we have lots to share. However, each API is a custom job. Using it requires adhering to the particular conditions of each site. Creatng one requires starting from scratch. More places would have one, if...
Library Cataloging