Bill,

I believe that rel="alternate" would be valid to use for the RIS formats. I
means it is used for RSS and Atom feeds which can be varying levels of
completeness compared to the original web site they represent.

Karen

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Bill Dueber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I didn't put in links for RIS-type formats because, I think, I don't really
> understand the semantics of the <link> tag. The RIS output for a record is
> a
> tiny percentage of what's in a record -- is it really "another
> representation" or is it a different "thing" altogether?
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Ed Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Nice work Bill! I particularly like your use of the <link> element to
> > enable auto-discovery of these resources:
> >
> >  <link rel="canonical" href="/Record/005550418">
> >  <link rel="alternate" type="application/marc"
> href="/Record/005550418.mrc"
> > >
> >  <link rel="alternate" type="application/marc+xml"
> > href="/Record/005550418.xml" >
> >  <link rel="alternate" href="/Record/005550418.rdf"
> > type="application/rdf+xml" />
> >
> > Did you shy away from adding the RIS and Refworks formats as links
> > because it wasn't clear what MIME type to use?
> >
> > I'd be interested in helping flesh out the RDF a bit if you are
> interested.
> >
> > //Ed
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Bill Dueber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > Many of you just saw Albert Betram of the University of Michigan
> > Libraries
> > > talk at #c4l10 about HathiTrust APIs available to anyone interested.
> One
> > of
> > > these, the BibAPI, was formed mostly by me on the basis of "Imaginary
> > User
> > > Needs," not actual use cases. Anyone who has use cases that aren't
> > > well-covered by the existing BibAPI should drop me a line and let me
> > know.
> > >
> > > This is also a good time to mention that catalog.hathitrust.org (and
> > > mirlyn.lib.umich.edu) support some limited export facilities by adding
> > an
> > > extension to a record URL. SO...
> > >
> > >
> > > http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005550418       Link to the
> > Hathitrust
> > > page
> > > http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005550418.marc  MARC21 binary
> > > http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005550418.xml   MARC-XML
> > > http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005550418.ris   RIS tagged format
> > > http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005550418.refworks Refworks
> tagged
> > > format
> > > http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005550418.rdf   Perfunctory RDF
> > > document
> > >
> > > I'd love help getting the RDF more fleshed out, btw.
> > >
> > > Again -- if you need anything else, or if you, say, wrap a nice jQuery
> > > plugin around the BibAPI, please let me know!
> > >
> > >  -Bill-
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Bill Dueber
> > > Library Systems Programmer
> > > University of Michigan Library
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Bill Dueber
> Library Systems Programmer
> University of Michigan Library
>