That only returns a "short citation" but nothing says how short that 
citation is, nor if it is formatted. I assume that "citation" means 
citation format, which isn't useful.

kc

On 7/10/12 7:32 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
> Worldcat does have the "basic" API, which is "more" "open" (assuming your
> situation qualifies). At any rate, it's free and open to (non-commercial)
> non-subscribers.
>
> http://oclc.org/developer/documentation/worldcat-basic-api/using-api
>
> Searching isn't terribly sophisticated, but might suit your need. And the
> schema.org data will be much richer than what you'd normally get back from
> the Basic API.
>
> -Ross.
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 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.
>>
>> 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>
>> <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>
>>
>>

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