For those of you interested in the developer competition being run by the JISC MOSAIC Project, I've put together a quick & dirty API for the available data sets. If it's easier for you, you can use this API to develop your competition entry rather than working with the entire downloaded data set.
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Simple API for JISC MOSAIC Project Developer Competition data
Web service for the free book usage data
I've been meaning to get around to adding a web service front end on to the book usage data that we released in December for ages. So, better late than never, here it is!
It's not the fastest bit of code I've ever written, but (if there's enough interest) I could speed it up.
The web [...]
Google Book Search Data API
The new Google Book Search Data API has some really cool features and I'm wondering how much of it I can shoehorn into the OPAC?
Our students increasingly expect the OPAC search box to be searching the full-text of our book stock — i.e. they type in several words that it would be useful to borrow [...]
new API from OpenLibrary
Great to see that OpenLibrary ("One web page for every book") now has an API!
There's an interesting debate going on via the Code4Lib email list regarding the API. Specifically, should they have used SRU or is exposing a simple API better? Personally, I'm all for simple APIs that non-library techies can pick up [...]
Google Book Search
I think Superpatron Ed might have let the cat out of the bag already, but Google should be making an annoucement about Google Book Search tomorrow that might be of interest to libraries… can you guess what it might be?