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You can, of course, mix the two approaches—get once browser-side, tell your servers what it said and store that for a while. We do something like that with Amazon covers. We don't store the covers, but we store *whether* Amazon has the cover. That way, it can know whether to try Amazon or not, and whether to fall back on another cover. T On 3/17/08, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I was thinking of both covers and 'digitized text availability'. > > But the reason I want to in fact do both server side is because of the > architecture I am trying to create here. We have a variety of systems > that should use both these services. We, like many people, are trying to > move to a more 'service oriented' type architecture, where I have one > component of software that does all of these lookups, and then provides > the resulting data in a uniform format via a local web service for all > my other user-facing interfaces to use. Of course, doing that requires a > server-side lookup. But that overall architecture is much preferable > (from a code efficiency and maintenance perspective) than having to > include customized AJAX for a variety of services (Google Scholar being > just one; Scopus is another content-provider that frustratingly provides > an Javascript-only API) in a variety of ever-changing user-facing > interfaces. DRY and all. > > > Jonathan > > > Tim Spalding wrote: > >> limits. I don't think it's a strict hits-per-day, I think it's heuristic > >> software meant to stop exactly what we'd be trying to do, server-side > >> machine-based access. > >> > > > > Aren't we still talking about covers? I see *no* reason to go > > server-side on that. Browser-side gets you what you want—covers from > > Google—without the risk they'll shut you down over overuse. > > > > T > > > > > > > -- > Jonathan Rochkind > Digital Services Software Engineer > The Sheridan Libraries > Johns Hopkins University > 410.516.8886 > rochkind (at) jhu.edu > -- Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding