Peter,

Yes, previous emails off-list had alerted us first to 70 or so titles with carriage returns, and (after we'd tidied those up) yesterday to just two:

    4815    Genes & Development
    11707    Quality and Safety in Health Care

I hope they were the ones that you found. They should be OK now. If not, feel free to email off-list to tell me the two new culprits are!

We have been busy developing more flexible APIs and in the course of that today we realised that we were including some records that don't have feeds (and that don't appear in our web interface). We will make sure that we tidy those up. We also appreciate that we have some updating to do because of new launches and title transfers. In the longer term we are looking to publisher-initiated updates to our database via CrossRef.

Thank you for sharing what you have done with our data. We welcome 'case studies' which we can use to suggest what people can do with this stuff. Please share with any user group for your cataloguing system too!

I'll email this list again once we think the data has been cleaned up, and once we have other APIs to try out and comment on.



Terry Bucknell
Electronic Resources Manager
Sydney Jones Library
University of Liverpool
Chatham St, PO Box 123
Liverpool, L69 3DA, UK
Tel: +44 (0)151 794 2692
Fax: +44 (0)151 794 2681

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Sent: 18 February 2009 20:34
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers

Terry,

I was very pleased with the tab delimited file. I have read it into a table and joined it to our catalog, that is now showing rss buttons in the A-Z list and 'recent articles' when presenting a full record presentation of a single catalog record.
I discovered two problems with the file however.
1. I found two lines containing carriage returns, messing up these rows. (see
2. There are titles in the list that do have a title and an issn, but that do not have a url of a rss feed. (e.g. Cell Differentiation)

Do you know of these problems ?

Regards,

Peter

Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and Research Library
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From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Bucknell, Terry
Sent: Wed 11-2-2009 23:11
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers



As you may know, ticTOCs is a project funded by JISC in the UK to create a single, freely available source of RSS feeds for tables of contents - see http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ . Our database now contains over 12,000 journals from over 430 publishers. Up until now the only way to get feeds out of ticTOCs has been to use our web interface to search for feeds and then export them as an OPML file, or one at a time to a feed reader of your choice.

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-pretty-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.

We hope that you will use this data to populate your catalog, A-Z journals list or whatever with RSS feed icons/links, or embedded TOCs.  We look forward to the day when SFX, SerialsSolutions and the like are all using our data!

Although the project phase of ticTOCs is very nearly at end end, we are confident that we are very close to ensuring that the future of ticTOCs is assured for at least the next three years, and will continue to be free.


Share and enjoy.



Terry Bucknell
Electronic Resources Manager
Sydney Jones Library
University of Liverpool
Chatham St, PO Box 123
Liverpool, L69 3DA, UK
Tel: +44 (0)151 794 2692
Fax: +44 (0)151 794 2681