Thanks! Got it.

Ethan

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Karen Coombs <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Ethan,
>
> Documentation on the web service part of VIAF is up on the OCLC
> Developer Network site at -
>
> http://www.oclc.org/developer/documentation/virtual-international-authority-file-viaf/using-api
>
> To get XML back for the query you sent just add &httpAccept=text/xml
> on the end of the query.
>
> This will get you XML output. It will look like HTML in your browser,
> but if you view source you'll see the XML.
>
> Karen
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm assuming someone who works on the VIAF project at OCLC is on the
> list--
> >
> > Are there APIs for querying VIAF?  For example, is it possible to get a
> > query response (e.g.
> >
> http://viaf.org/viaf/search?query=local.names+all+%22alexander%22&stylesheet=/viaf/xsl/results.xsl&sortKeys=holdingscount&maximumRecords=100
> )
> > in XML?  I tried to remove the stylesheet param but there seems to be a
> > default.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ethan
> >
>