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Worldcat does have the "basic" API, which is "more" "open" (assuming your situation qualifies). At any rate, it's free and open to (non-commercial) non-subscribers. http://oclc.org/developer/documentation/worldcat-basic-api/using-api Searching isn't terribly sophisticated, but might suit your need. And the schema.org data will be much richer than what you'd normally get back from the Basic API. -Ross. On Tuesday, July 10, 2012, Karen Coyle wrote: > On 7/10/12 4:02 PM, Richard Wallis wrote: > >> >> But is it available to everyone, and is the data retrieved also usable as >> ODC-BY by any member of the Web public? >> >> Yes it is, and at this stage it is only available from within a html page. >> > > The "it" I was referring to was the API. Roy is telling me that people > should use the API, as if that is an obvious option that I am overlooking. > I am asking if the general web public can use the API to get this data. I > believe that should be a yes/no question/answer. > > kc > > > This experiment is the first step in a process to make linked data about > WorldCat resources available. As it will evolve over time other areas such > as API access, content-negotiation, search & other query methods, > additional RDF data vocabularies, etc., etc., will be considered in concert > with community feedback (such as this thread) as to the way forward. > > Karen I know you are eager to work with and demonstrate the benefits of > this way of publishing data. But these things take time and effort, so > please be a little patient, and keep firing off these use cases and issues > they are all valuable input. > > ~Richard. > > > kc > > > Roy > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Kevin Ford <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > The use case clarifies perfectly. > > Totally feasible. Well, I should say "totally feasible" with the caveat > that I've never used the Worldcat Search API. Not letting that stop me, > so > long as it is what I imagine it is, then a developer should be able to > perform a search, retrieve the response, and, by integrating one of the > tools advertised on the schema.org website into his/her code, then > retrieve > the microdata for each resource returned from the search (and save it as > RDF > or whatever). > > If someone has created something like this, do speak up. > > Yours, > > Kevin > > > > > > On 07/10/2012 04:48 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > > Kevin, if you misunderstand then I undoubtedly haven't been clear (let's > at least share the confusion :-)). Here's the use case: > > PersonA wants to create a comprehensive bibliography of works by > AuthorB. The goal is to do a search on AuthorB in WorldCat and extract > the RDFa data from those pages in order to populate the bibliography. > > Apart from all of the issues of getting a perfect match on authors and > of manifestation duplicates (there would need to be editing of the > results after retrieval at the user's end), how feasible is this? Assume > that the author is prolific enough that one wouldn't want to look up all > of the records by hand. > > kc > > On 7/10/12 1:43 PM, Kevin Ford wrote: > > As for someone who might want to do this programmatically, he/she > should take a look at the "Programming languages" section of the > second link I sent along: > > http://schema.rdfs.org/tools.****html<http://schema.rdfs.org/tools.**html> > <http://schema.rdfs.org/**tools.html <http://schema.rdfs.org/tools.html>> > > There one can find Ruby, Python, and Java extractors and parsers > capable of outputting RDF. A developer can take one of these and > programmatically get at the data. > > Apologies if I am misunderstanding your intent. > > Yours, > > Kevin > > > > On 07/10/2012 04:34 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > > Thanks, Kevin! And Richard! > > I'm thinking we need a good web site with links to tools. I had > already > been introduced to > > http://www.w3.org/2012/pyRdfa/ > > where you can past a URI and get ttl or rdf/xml. These are all good > resources. But what about someone who wants to do this > programmatically, > not through a web site? Richard's message indicates that this isn't > yet > available, so perhaps we should be gathering use cases to support the > need? And have a place to post various solutions, even ones that are > not > OCLC-specific? (Because I am hoping that the use of microformats will > increase in general.) > > kc > > > On 7/10/12 12:12 PM, Kevin Ford wrote: > > is there an open search to get one to the desired records in the > first > > place? > > -- I'm not certain this will fully address your question, but try > these two sites: > > Website: <http://www.google.com/**webmasters/tools/richsnippets> > >