It is worth following up on Xiaoming's statement of a limit of 100 uses per
day of the xISSN service with the information that exceptions to this limite
are certainly granted. Annette probably knows that just such an exception
was granted to her LibX project, and LibX remains the single largest user of
this service. 
Roy

On 6/13/09 4:02 PM, "Xiaoming Liu" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Annette's comment is correct. XISSN service allows 100 uses per day for
> non-OCLC usage. I don't think xISSN's price proposal is ever approved, so we
> don't have a price list for commercial usage.
> 
> XISSN's access control is sort of complex, for more details please check
> http://xissn.worldcat.org/xissnadmin/doc/subscribe.htm , hopefully we can
> clean it up in the future.
> 
> xiaoming
> 
> 
> On 6/13/09 3:52 PM, "Hamparian,Don" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> You can also purchase. I thought it was 500 usages a day. Xiaoming?
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Tennant,Roy
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 5:02 PM
>>> To: Hamparian,Don
>>> Subject: FW: [CODE4LIB] Newbie asking for some suggestions with
>>> javascript
>>> 
>>> I think I have to say yes to this, although it isn't going to make us
>>> look
>>> great.
>>> Roy
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ------ Forwarded Message
>>> From: Annette Bailey <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Reply-To: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:55:57 -0400
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Newbie asking for some suggestions with
>>> javascript
>>> 
>>> 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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