This is correct.  I'd bet it'd be like 10 lines of PHP or less, though.

-Ross.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks, Chad, it does help. And I think it helps me understand why I was a
> bit confused by the suggestion, but let me see if I've gotten it:
>
> I asked about COinS. COinS (drat, hate uplow, from now on just coins) is
> basically just a formatted string imbedded in the html that will be used by
> an external program. There is no service that the OL site needs to provide
> other than popping the context object in there in the right format. Very low
> effort, from the open library's point of view.
>
> unAPI appears to require some lightweight services that would have to be
> added to the OL site: basically, responding to the three possible unapi
> requests. So we can't *just* add an unAPI to the html pages -- there's a bit
> more work that needs to be done.
>
> Is this correct?
>
> Thanks,
> kc
>
> Chad Fennell wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
>>
>>> I've looked at unAPI, but I can't get a handle on what needs to be in the
>>> <abbr>. What would be useful?
>>>
>>> kc
>>>
>>
>>
>> I put together a pretty basic unAPI interface (technically, a Drupal
>> module) for our EthicShare project; you can see how the <abbr> tags are used
>> there.  Ex:
>>
>> http://ethicshare.org/publications/ethics?sc=publications
>>
>> embedded on the page, you'll find things like: <abbr class='unapi-id'
>> title='http://ethicshare.org/unapi/374360'>
>>
>> There are a few other pieces, but you can see these in action there as
>> well.  Ex,
>>
>> http://ethicshare.org/unapi/ -tells clients what formats are available on
>> the sever - I've only implemented RIS so far...
>>
>> http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360 - tells the client what formats are
>> available for a given resource.
>>
>> http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360&format=ris - kind of
>> self-explanatory.
>>
>>
>> Hope that helps a little...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Chad
>>
>>
>
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