It would be useful if it allowed only create candidate terms via web services?

best regards

diego ferreyra

2011/3/1 Bobbi Fox <[log in to unmask]>:
> I have been tasked with coming up with a RESTful Create, Read, Update [we're
> not Deleting] API to our home-grown controlled vocabulary database, "WordShack".
>
> WordShack was developed as part of our Email Archiving Pilot, where we
> control not only for subject, but for person, organization, email address, etc.
>
> I've investigated Tematres1.2 (nice interface, btw), and also looked into
> the lately-announced HIVE RESTful Web Services API, but both these seem to
> be Read-only.
>
> Is anyone working on the C & U part of CRUD?
>
> An additional complication is that the controlled vocabulary systems I've
> seen so far flatten (and store) the "term" into a single string, whereas our
> DB, heavily MODS influenced, breaks up terms into fields: say, a "person"
> term is broken into a (name,term of address, date) tuple.  While I'd
> consider putting a skim coat on the DB with a structured text string
> gazinta/goesoutta of some sort, I can imagine screams of anguish from the
> original designers (some of whom are also on this code4lib ml :-)
>
> I'd like to hear from anyone who is working on this, or who would like to be
> working on it with me.
>
> Thanks,
> Bobbi Fox, Office for Information Systems
> Harvard Library,
> Harvard University
> Cambridge, MA
>