On 2/11/09 5:11 PM, "Bucknell, Terry" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > We are working on creating APIs to let groups like the code4lib community > extract our data in more flexible ways, but it has been pointed out to us - > see > http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/tictocs-give-us-a-file-pretty-pretty-pret > ty-please/ - that all you really need (at least at first) is a simple > tab-delimited file that contains titles, ISSNs, and feed URIs for all of the > journals in tocTOCs. We now provide precisely this at > http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/text.php. This is pretty cool. I can see: 1. Selecting one or more of the RSS feeds that fit within the collection development policy of a particular library 2. Regularly visiting the RSS feeds to extract the metadata of newly available articles 3. Adding that metadata to a library's "next generation" library catalog/index 4. And you can figure out the rest Such a thing would be complementary to the article-level metadata available from the DOAJ. Hmmm... ticTOC++ -- Eric Lease Morgan Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame (574) 631-8604