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On Mar 20, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > On Mar 20, 2006, at 8:22 AM, Edward Summers wrote: > >>> So, the idea is to insert "coins" into each of my bibliographic >>> records. After doing so user-agents that crawl the site, or user- >>> agents equipped with some sort of coins-aware tool/plugin will >>> convert the coin into an OpenURL and allow the user to resolve it >>> against their local resolver. No? >> >> Yes, that's the idea. But wait, there's more! With the new unAPI spec, you can also allow eager hackers to mashup and rewire your cataloged data and objects web-2.0 style just by including a tiny bit of additional html and a small set of function calls. http://unapi.info/specs/ There's a list of cool examples already in the wild: http://unapi.info/examples.html ...among them, even, a validator from Mr. Summers, to help you to know how your unAPI service is doing. Rudimentary 2.0! -dc