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I've written a decent amount of code against Sierra, but I don't know if any of it amounts to an "API". * I've built some utility code that has grown into a handful Perl modules that I use regularly in creating new reports. Most of these are special-purpose for applications we have in-house but I'm trying to find ways to generalize them. Examples: wrapper functions around the Patron Update Web Service, functions to look-up shelf location names, find/clean up patron data entry errors, etc * I've also started creating little web services with mod_perl for use in a web-application I'm working on. Examples: a script that spits back item information in JSON when given an item barcode, a script that spits back a JSON list of all attached items when given a bib record number. Again these are mostly special purpose, but I have a notion to find ways to generalize them. I'm aware of two github repo's that might be of interest in this conversation: * https://github.com/mcoia/sierra_marc_tools * https://github.com/geekmuse/sierra-perl-scripts Sadly, I'm a team of one here and I'm a bit shy about the state my code is currently in, so I haven't published it anywhere. ( Also the way I use git locally is probably "wrong", not to mention there are probably passwords in old commits. ) Nonetheless, I'd definitely be interested in collaborating on anything that might benefit all Sierra users. Feel free to contact me off-list if you want to chat more. ~Dave On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Julia Bauder <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Jason, > > To expand on Becky's answer a bit: we haven't written our own APIs yet, but > I did write a Sierra driver for VuFind, so I do have some notes that might > be useful to you that I'm happy to share. At least, I've learned the hard > way some things that you don't want to do when you're querying the > database. ;-) > > Julia > > ********************************************* > > Julia Bauder > > Social Studies and Data Services Librarian > > Grinnell College Libraries > > 1111 Sixth Ave. > > Grinnell, IA 50112 > > > 641-269-4431 > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Becky Yoose <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Hi Jason, > > > > We haven't planned to write our own APIs for Sierra at this point (we're > > still working on getting Sierra to work in the first place), but Grinnell > > would be interested in seeing how the process goes for you in terms of > > local API building. > > > > As for the Sierra APIs - III just hired a new API project manager (the > one > > that attended #c4l13 has since left the company) so I'm not sure what's > all > > going on. They are still saying that patron facing APIs will be out by > > winter, though I'd wish the staff facing APIs would get some love too... > > > > Thanks, > > Becky > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Becky Yoose > > Discovery and Integrated Systems Librarian > > Grinnell College > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Thomale, Jason <[log in to unmask] > > >wrote: > > > > > Hello Code4lib, > > > > > > I'm wondering if any III Sierra users out there have worked on building > > an > > > API for accessing their ILS data on top of Sierra's Postgres database. > > > Right now I'm looking into possibly building something to serve local > > needs > > > and use cases, as we're not terribly confident that III's forthcoming > > > APIs--if they are indeed forthcoming--will really fit the bill. > > > > > > If this is something you're doing or have considered doing and wouldn't > > > mind comparing notes, please drop me a line! Thanks. > > > > > > Jason Thomale > > > Resource Discovery Systems Librarian > > > University of North Texas > > > > > >