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On Dec 3, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Thanks, Chad, it does help. And I think it helps me understand why I > was a bit confused by the suggestion, but let me see if I've gotten > it: > > I asked about COinS. COinS (drat, hate uplow, from now on just > coins) is basically just a formatted string imbedded in the html > that will be used by an external program. There is no service that > the OL site needs to provide other than popping the context object > in there in the right format. Very low effort, from the open > library's point of view. > > unAPI appears to require some lightweight services that would have > to be added to the OL site: basically, responding to the three > possible unapi requests. So we can't *just* add an unAPI to the html > pages -- there's a bit more work that needs to be done. Yes, you are correct. unAPI does require that you implement some kind of unAPI "server". > > > Is this correct? > > Thanks, > kc > > Chad Fennell wrote: >> On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: >> >>> I've looked at unAPI, but I can't get a handle on what needs to be >>> in the <abbr>. What would be useful? >>> >>> kc >>> >> >> >> I put together a pretty basic unAPI interface (technically, a >> Drupal module) for our EthicShare project; you can see how the >> <abbr> tags are used there. Ex: >> >> http://ethicshare.org/publications/ethics?sc=publications >> >> embedded on the page, you'll find things like: <abbr class='unapi- >> id' title='http://ethicshare.org/unapi/374360'> >> >> There are a few other pieces, but you can see these in action there >> as well. Ex, >> >> http://ethicshare.org/unapi/ -tells clients what formats are >> available on the sever - I've only implemented RIS so far... >> >> http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360 - tells the client what >> formats are available for a given resource. >> >> http://ethicshare.org/unapi/?id=374360&format=ris - kind of self- >> explanatory. >> >> >> Hope that helps a little... >> >> Cheers, >> -Chad >> >> > > > -- > ----------------------------------- > Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant > [log in to unmask] http://www.kcoyle.net > ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet > fx.: 510-848-3913 > mo.: 510-435-8234 > ------------------------------------