On Dec 3, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Karen Coyle 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.

Yes, you are correct. unAPI does require that you implement some kind  
of unAPI "server".

>
>
> 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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