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Or use the modified xissn service of OCLC: http://xissn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/issn/1095-9203?method=getMetadata&fl=issnl,rssurl Peter Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and Research Library tel. +31 317 48 25 17 http://library.wur.nl <http://library.wur.nl/> P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail ________________________________ From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Godmar Back Sent: Fri 12-6-2009 5:55 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Newbie asking for some suggestions with javascript Yes - see this email http://serials.infomotions.com/code4lib/archive/2009/200905/0909.html If you can host yourself, the stand-alone version is efficient and easy to keep up to date - just run a cronjob that downloads the text file from JISC. My WSGI script will automatically pick up if it has changed on disk. - Godmar On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Annette Bailey <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Godmar Back wrote a web service in python for ticTOC with an eye to > incorporating links into III's Millennium catalog. > > http://code.google.com/p/tictoclookup/ > > http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/ > > Annette > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Derik Badman<[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Just joined the list, and I'm hoping to get a suggestion or two. > > > > I'm working on using the ticTOCs ( http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ ) text file > of > > rss feed urls for journals to insert links to those feeds in our Serials > > Solution Journal Finder. > > > > I've got it working using a bit of jQuery. > > > > Demo here: http://155.247.22.22/badman/toc/demo.html > > The javascript is here: http://155.247.22.22/badman/toc/toc-rss.js > > > > Getting that working wasn't too hard, but I'm a bit concerned about > > efficiency and caching. > > > > I'm not sure the way I'm checking isbns against the text file is the most > > efficient way to go. Basically I'm making an ajax call to the file that > > takes the data and makes an array of objects. I then query the isbn of > each > > journal on the page against the array of objects. If there's a match I > pull > > the data and put it on the page. I'm wondering if there's a better way to > do > > this, especially since the text file is over 1mb. I'm not looking for > code, > > just ideas. > > > > I'm also looking for any pointers about using the file itself and somehow > > auto-downloading it to my server on a regular basis. Right now I just > saved > > a copy to my server, but in the future it'd be good to automate grabbing > the > > file from ticTOCs server on a regular basis and updating the one on my > > server (perhaps I'd need to use a cron job to do that?). > > > > Thanks for much for any suggestions or pointers. (For what it's worth, I > can > > manage with javascript or php.) > > > > > > -- > > Derik A. Badman > > Digital Services Librarian > > Reference Librarian for Education and Social Work > > Temple University Libraries > > Paley Library 209 > > Philadelphia, PA > > Phone: 215-204-5250 > > Email: [log in to unmask] > > AIM: derikbad > > > > "Research makes times march forward, it makes time march backward, and it > > also makes time stand still." -Greil Marcus > > >