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> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan > Sent: 21 May, 2007 09:34 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [CODE4LIB] worldcat > > We here at Notre Dame subscribe to (license?) WorldCat, and > I'm wondering, does it have a Web Services interface/API? I guess it depends on what you consider a Web Service interface and API. Today you create URL's to retrieve XHTML documents. The details are here: <http://www.worldcat.org/links/default.jsp> It's not pretty since you have to scrape the XHTML document for the information you want and they don't use id attributes on content to make it easy for you to pull information out of the XHTML. However, looking at the roadmap for WorldCat.org, they have always planned a proper Web Service API for it. It's still beta, so some functionality has yet to be delivered. Unfortunately, I cannot say when a Web Service API will be delivered since I'm not on the WorldCat.org team and do not know what their current development priorities are. Also, if you have some specific use cases in mind for how you would like to interact with WorldCat.org using Web services, I'm sure the WorldCat.org folks would like to see them. You can send feedback here: <http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/?page=feedback> Andy.