Real Life Experiences With Library APIS

Real Life Experiences with Library APIs

Karen A. CoombsUniversity of Houston Libraries

Friday, October 2, 2009

WorldCat Search API

Problem: Integrate Library Catalog Data into Library Website

WorldCat in FCKEditor

Problem: Spotlight Library Holdings on Blogs

WorldCat Search Widget for Wordpress

Problem: Suggest other libraries with this book

WorldCat Search API Google Map

Problem: Add link to TOC RSS on Journal Records

xISSN TOC Lookup

WorldCat Registry

Problem: Show users other libraries nearby

Libraries Nearby

Some challenges

• Having the right data

• ISBN

• Geo Coordinates or valid address

• Choosing a metadata format

• Dublin Core too dumb

• MARCXML too hard

• XPath

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