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Thanks! Got it. Ethan On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Karen Coombs <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Ethan, > > Documentation on the web service part of VIAF is up on the OCLC > Developer Network site at - > > http://www.oclc.org/developer/documentation/virtual-international-authority-file-viaf/using-api > > To get XML back for the query you sent just add &httpAccept=text/xml > on the end of the query. > > This will get you XML output. It will look like HTML in your browser, > but if you view source you'll see the XML. > > Karen > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm assuming someone who works on the VIAF project at OCLC is on the > list-- > > > > Are there APIs for querying VIAF? For example, is it possible to get a > > query response (e.g. > > > http://viaf.org/viaf/search?query=local.names+all+%22alexander%22&stylesheet=/viaf/xsl/results.xsl&sortKeys=holdingscount&maximumRecords=100 > ) > > in XML? I tried to remove the stylesheet param but there seems to be a > > default. > > > > Thanks, > > Ethan > > >