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What I've heard is that there is indeed a set of APIs for III, which they in fact _used_ to sell as an add-on product, but currently access to the APIs are not available to customers at any price. Jonathan Cloutman, David wrote: > It is very clear to me, from trying to integrate into our III systems, > is that their ILS is desperately in need of being reworked into more of > an SOA model. The best that they can currently do for library developers > is sell us an RSS product, which I think probably falls short of what we > actually need. What we need is a well documented, functional, > standards-based web service that could be used to hook into other > applications. It seems to me that the best that many of us can do with > the III product in terms of automated integration is to grab data > through some sort of screen scraping. > > The fact that a product like Encore works at all, to me indicates that > there must be some sort of programmatic hooks in the catalog that we as > customers could leverage for our own purposes, but I have not been able > to find any documentation of these. > > Of course, empowering developers, or their customers in general, is not > in the III business model, so I don't think we can expect much from > them. > > > > --- > David Cloutman <[log in to unmask]> > Electronic Services Librarian > Marin County Free Library > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Eric Lease Morgan > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:39 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Life after Expect > > > On May 15, 2008, at 8:32 AM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > > >> Just as the hot dog cookers and other one trick wonders in the kitchen >> are of very limited use, special purpose tools that attempt to define >> your problem and solution are not nearly useful as generic ones in an >> ILS context. I am still hoping that vendors will recognize that true >> interoperability is a feature that increases the value of the ILS more >> than just about anything else. >> > > > Well said. The vendor who provides a suit of tools that can > interoperate with any number of other standards-based tools is as > vendor to establish close relationships with. > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan > Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department > Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame > > (574) 631-8604 > > Email Disclaimer: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/nav/misc/EmailDisclaimer.cfm > > -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu