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That only returns a "short citation" but nothing says how short that citation is, nor if it is formatted. I assume that "citation" means citation format, which isn't useful. kc On 7/10/12 7:32 PM, Ross Singer wrote: > 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> >> >> -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet