Roy,

Just to clarify, you have to be an OCLC cataloging member to use this
beyond 100 uses per day, correct?

Thanks,
Annette

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Roy Tennant<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This data (the Tic-Tocs RSS URLs) is also available via xISSN. For example:
>
> <http://xissn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/issn/1095-9203?method=getMetadata
> &format=xml&fl=*>
>
> Look for the "rssurl" attribute. For information on xISSN see:
>
> <http://xissn.worldcat.org/xissnadmin/>
>
> Roy
>
>
> On 6/11/09 6/11/09 € 12:36 PM, "Derik Badman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Jon Gorman <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>>
>>> I guess the first question is if it is really necessary to use a text
>>> file?  I'm not entirely clear on this process, but perhaps the text
>>> file could be imported into a database.
>>
>>
>> At this point the text file is a stop-gap api that ticTOCs is offering
>> (supposedly working an actual api), so this will probably be a temporary
>> situation. I could put all the data into mysql, though then I'd have to
>> figure out how to check the text file for changes and then update the
>> database accordingly.
>>
>>
>>> Then of course perhaps there's some way to add this to the Serials
>>> Solution database directly?  Then you don't need another javascript at
>>> all?
>>
>>
>> I'm so disillusioned with them, that I didn't even consider that...
>>
>>
>>
>>> cron + wget/curl would be a good first step it would seem.  You might
>>> want some sort of script that monitors changes or the like.  (Maybe
>>> send you an email if there's no updates in x days or something like
>>> that).
>>
>>
>> Thanks, I'll look into that.
>>
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