On 2/11/09 5:11 PM, "Bucknell, Terry" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We are working on creating APIs to let groups like the code4lib community
> extract our data in more flexible ways, but it has been pointed out to us -
> see
> http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/tictocs-give-us-a-file-pretty-pretty-pret
> ty-please/ - that all you really need (at least at first) is a simple
> tab-delimited file that contains titles, ISSNs, and feed URIs for all of the
> journals in tocTOCs. We now provide precisely this at
> http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/text.php.
This is pretty cool. I can see:
1. Selecting one or more of the RSS feeds that fit within
the collection development policy of a particular library
2. Regularly visiting the RSS feeds to extract the metadata
of newly available articles
3. Adding that metadata to a library's "next generation"
library catalog/index
4. And you can figure out the rest
Such a thing would be complementary to the article-level metadata available
from the DOAJ. Hmmm... ticTOC++
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Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
(574) 631-8604
