Ok, the Pipe didn't quite work as planned. Yahoo! is stripping out
all of the relevant html attributes when it's converting the WC
microdata html to a string, which renders the whole thing useless.
If I don't convert it to a string, it maintains all of the necessary
attributes in the JSON output, but it strips them from the RSS and
html outputs.
I mean, it's hard to complain about "free thing doesn't handle my
niche problem", but when has that ever stopped me?
Anyway, it's there for somebody to clone and poke around with. Maybe
somebody more familiar with Pipes can figure a way around this
problem.
-Ross.
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Ross Singer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I made a Yahoo Pipe that merges the WorldCat Basic OpenSearch RSS
> result with the microdata div in the Worldcat pages referred to in the
> search results:
>
> http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=05ae2a7bc180f3abe36b11bcaf1adc52
>
> You'll need to enter your wskey for it to work.
>
> You can get the output as RSS (which will require the item/description
> to be unescaped to use) or JSON (which wouldn't require unescaping).
>
> It's not terribly fast, but it least should help somebody get started.
>
> -Ross.
>
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> It isn't unfortunate, it was deliberate. I have a key for the basic api, but
>> I was being advised that I had overlooked the obvious answer of the worldcat
>> search API. I have no confusion between the two, except for the confusion
>> that seems to be promulgated by OCLC itself.
>>
>> kc
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/12/12 9:46 AM, Karen Coombs wrote:
>>>
>>> Karen,
>>>
>>> Unfortunately it looks like you requested a key for the WorldCat
>>> Search API which does have specific eligibility criteria. The WorldCat
>>> Basic API which Ross mentions is available to anyone -
>>> http://www.oclc.org/developer/services/worldcat-basic-api
>>>
>>> It allows you to do an OpenSearch keyword query of WorldCat and get
>>> back basic metadata including the link to the worldcat.org page for
>>> each record returned.
>>>
>>> The easiest way to get a key is to go to http://worldcat.org/config/
>>> and login with a WorldCat username/password. You should see a link
>>> that says WorldCat Basic API Key which you can use to get a key.
>>>
>>> I apologize for the confusion between the two APIs (WorldCat Search
>>> and WorldCat Basic). The difference is something we've tried to make
>>> clearer in our documentation but unfortunately given your experience
>>> it is still an issue.
>>>
>>> Karen
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 7/10/12 5:07 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/10/12 4:02 PM, Richard Wallis wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But is it available to everyone, and is the data retrieved also usable
>>>>>> as
>>>>>> ODC-BY by any member of the Web public?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes it is, and at this stage it is only available from within a html
>>>>>> page.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The "it" I was referring to was the API. Roy is telling me that people
>>>>> should use the API, as if that is an obvious option that I am
>>>>> overlooking. I
>>>>> am asking if the general web public can use the API to get this data. I
>>>>> believe that should be a yes/no question/answer.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Since no one here from OCLC had the integrity to answer this question, I
>>>> went ahead and applied for a Worldcat API key, and here is the reply:
>>>>
>>>> *****
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your interest in the WorldCat Search API, however at this
>>>> time
>>>> the web service is only available to institutions, primarily libraries,
>>>> that
>>>> have a specific relationship with OCLC and then only for work related to
>>>> that library's services. The specific relationship is explained further
>>>> here,
>>>> http://oclc.org/developer/documentation/worldcat-search-api/who-can-use.
>>>>
>>>> However, there are other OCLC services that are available to individual's
>>>> non-commercial use. Looking at the list of services available on
>>>> http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/content/affiliate/ you'll see that the
>>>> WorldCat
>>>> search box and WorldCat links with embedded searches are available to
>>>> anyone. You may also be interested in checking out the WorldCat
>>>> Registry,
>>>> or low-volume use of the xISBN and xISSN services.
>>>>
>>>> If you have questions about the service, please contact the product
>>>> manager,
>>>> Dawn Hendricks at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
>>>>
>>>> *****
>>>>
>>>> There is nothing wrong with having a proprietary API; but pretending that
>>>> it
>>>> isn't (either directly or through omission), or being afraid to say it,
>>>> is
>>>> the kind of thing that has caused me to lose respect for OCLC. Nothing
>>>> should be declared "open" that isn't available to all, not just members.
>>>> And
>>>> advertisements for WC API classes should state "members only." That would
>>>> be
>>>> honest. And telling folks on a wide-open list that they should use the
>>>> Worldcat API (without mentioning "if you are in a member institution and
>>>> using this for library services) is at best deceiving, at worst
>>>> dishonest.
>>>>
>>>> I, for one, am tired of OCLC's lies, and I'm not afraid to say it.
>>>> Fortunately for me, retirement is looming and I don't need to care who
>>>> likes
>>>> what I say. This is a relief, to say the least.
>>>>
>>>> kc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> kc
>>>>>
>>>>>> This experiment is the first step in a process to make linked data
>>>>>> about
>>>>>> WorldCat resources available. As it will evolve over time other areas
>>>>>> such
>>>>>> as API access, content-negotiation, search & other query methods,
>>>>>> additional RDF data vocabularies, etc., etc., will be considered in
>>>>>> concert
>>>>>> with community feedback (such as this thread) as to the way forward.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Karen I know you are eager to work with and demonstrate the benefits of
>>>>>> this way of publishing data. But these things take time and effort, so
>>>>>> please be a little patient, and keep firing off these use cases and
>>>>>> issues
>>>>>> they are all valuable input.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ~Richard.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> kc
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Roy
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Kevin Ford <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The use case clarifies perfectly.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Totally feasible. Well, I should say "totally feasible" with the
>>>>>>>>> caveat
>>>>>>>>> that I've never used the Worldcat Search API. Not letting that stop
>>>>>>>>> me,
>>>>>>>>> so
>>>>>>>>> long as it is what I imagine it is, then a developer should be able
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> perform a search, retrieve the response, and, by integrating one of
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> tools advertised on the schema.org website into his/her code, then
>>>>>>>>> retrieve
>>>>>>>>> the microdata for each resource returned from the search (and save
>>>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>>>> as
>>>>>>>>> RDF
>>>>>>>>> or whatever).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If someone has created something like this, do speak up.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Yours,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Kevin
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 07/10/2012 04:48 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Kevin, if you misunderstand then I undoubtedly haven't been clear
>>>>>>>>>> (let's
>>>>>>>>>> at least share the confusion :-)). Here's the use case:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> PersonA wants to create a comprehensive bibliography of works by
>>>>>>>>>> AuthorB. The goal is to do a search on AuthorB in WorldCat and
>>>>>>>>>> extract
>>>>>>>>>> the RDFa data from those pages in order to populate the
>>>>>>>>>> bibliography.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Apart from all of the issues of getting a perfect match on authors
>>>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>>> of manifestation duplicates (there would need to be editing of the
>>>>>>>>>> results after retrieval at the user's end), how feasible is this?
>>>>>>>>>> Assume
>>>>>>>>>> that the author is prolific enough that one wouldn't want to look
>>>>>>>>>> up
>>>>>>>>>> all
>>>>>>>>>> of the records by hand.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> kc
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 7/10/12 1:43 PM, Kevin Ford wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> As for someone who might want to do this programmatically, he/she
>>>>>>>>>>> should take a look at the "Programming languages" section of the
>>>>>>>>>>> second link I sent along:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> http://schema.rdfs.org/tools.**html<http://schema.rdfs.org/tools.html>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> There one can find Ruby, Python, and Java extractors and parsers
>>>>>>>>>>> capable of outputting RDF. A developer can take one of these and
>>>>>>>>>>> programmatically get at the data.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Apologies if I am misunderstanding your intent.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Yours,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Kevin
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 07/10/2012 04:34 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks, Kevin! And Richard!
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm thinking we need a good web site with links to tools. I had
>>>>>>>>>>>> already
>>>>>>>>>>>> been introduced to
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.w3.org/2012/pyRdfa/
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> where you can past a URI and get ttl or rdf/xml. These are all
>>>>>>>>>>>> good
>>>>>>>>>>>> resources. But what about someone who wants to do this
>>>>>>>>>>>> programmatically,
>>>>>>>>>>>> not through a web site? Richard's message indicates that this
>>>>>>>>>>>> isn't
>>>>>>>>>>>> yet
>>>>>>>>>>>> available, so perhaps we should be gathering use cases to support
>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>> need? And have a place to post various solutions, even ones that
>>>>>>>>>>>> are
>>>>>>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>>>>>>> OCLC-specific? (Because I am hoping that the use of microformats
>>>>>>>>>>>> will
>>>>>>>>>>>> increase in general.)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> kc
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 7/10/12 12:12 PM, Kevin Ford wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> is there an open search to get one to the desired records in the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> first
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> place?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> -- I'm not certain this will fully address your question, but
>>>>>>>>>>>>> try
>>>>>>>>>>>>> these two sites:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Website:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.google.com/**webmasters/tools/richsnippets<http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Example: http://tinyurl.com/dx3h5bg
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Website:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://linter.structured-data.**org/<http://linter.structured-data.org/>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Example: http://tinyurl.com/bmm8bbc
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> These sites will extract the data, but I don't think you get
>>>>>>>>>>>>> your
>>>>>>>>>>>>> choice of serialization. The data are extracted and displayed
>>>>>>>>>>>>> on
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> resulting page in the HTML, but at least you can *see* the data.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Additionally, there are a number of "tools" to help with
>>>>>>>>>>>>> microdata
>>>>>>>>>>>>> extraction here:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://schema.rdfs.org/tools.**html<http://schema.rdfs.org/tools.html>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Some of these will allow you to output specific (RDF)
>>>>>>>>>>>>> serializations.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> HTH,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kevin
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 07/10/2012 02:42 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I have demonstrated the schema.org/RDFa microdata in the WC
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> database to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> various folks and the question always is: how do I get access
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> (The only source I have is the Facebook API, me being a "user"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> rather
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> than a "maker".) The microdata is CC-BY once you get a Worldcat
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> URI, but
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is there an open search to get one to the desired records in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> first
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> place? I'm poorly-versed in WC APIs so I'm hoping others have a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> better
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> grasp.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> @rjw: the OCLC website does a thorough job of hiding email
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> addresses or
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I would have asked this directly. Then again, a discussion here
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> could
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> have added value.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> kc
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Karen Coyle
>>>>>>> [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net
>>>>>>> ph: 1-510-540-7596
>>>>>>> m: 1-510-435-8234
>>>>>>> skype: kcoylenet
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Karen Coyle
>>>> [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net
>>>> ph: 1-510-540-7596
>>>> m: 1-510-435-8234
>>>> skype: kcoylenet
>>
>>
>> --
>> Karen Coyle
>> [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net
>> ph: 1-510-540-7596
>> m: 1-510-435-8234
>> skype: kcoylenet
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