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On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 11:41 -0400, Godmar Back wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Dr R. Sanderson > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > Like what? The current API seems to be concerned with search. Search > > is what SRU does well. If it was concerned with harvest, I (and I'm > > sure many others) would have instead suggested OAI-PMH. > > > No, the API presented does not support search. Well, it only doesn't support search because of the way that the API has been described without using the word 'search'! To quote the documentation in the API: ------ Infogami provides an API to query the database for objects matching particular criteria ... To find objects matching a particular query, send a GET request to http://openlibrary.org/api/things with query as parameter. In this documentation we use curl as a simple command line query client; any software that supports http GET can be used. ... The API supports querying for objects based of string matching. ----- And so on. There's a query, which can have its results sorted, be limited in terms of the number of results returned, and have the beginning of that result list start at an offset. Sounds a lot like a search? Rob