[XML4Lib] List of library-related APIs

[Ann Apps]

Hi Roy, and All,

You may be interested in the JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) (http://iesr.ac.uk) in the UK, loosely within the library domain. It aims to record machine-to-machine services (APIs), both those that give access to collections and stand-alone services. 

Via the IESR web search interface it is possible to search by service type (API protocol): http://iesr.ac.uk/service/iesrsrch?type=new . The resulting records give details of the resource collections and their APIs (bundled together). For each service there are details of its address, further interface details where appropriate (eg ZeeRex, WSDL), and Help page.

IESR itself has several APIs: OAI-PMH, Z39.50, SRU/W. And of course these are recorded in IESR.

Unfortunately, in reality there are not very many resource collections with m2m APIs, but we hope to increase IESR content. However a lot of resources have only a URL, which IESR pragmatically records as a webpage service.

Feel free to distribute this information more widely. I am not subscribed to the other lists to which the original message was sent so cannot mail to them.

Best wishes,
	Ann

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xml4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:xml4lib-
> bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 6:43 PM
> To: Code for Libraries; web4lib at webjunction.org; xml4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [XML4Lib] List of library-related APIs
> 
> In following the UK effort to put together a "mashed up libraries" event, I
> was struck with how useful having a list of library-related APIs would be
> for this and other "unconference" kind of events. Unfortunately, I thought
> that the list that Owen Stephens began at
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/59hop2
> 
> would be difficult to keep current and would unlikely to be used beyond that
> one event. So with Owen's permission I took his beginning list of APIs and
> some from the comments and started a page on my TechEssence.info site that I
> hope can serve as a maintained list that all kinds of library developer
> conferences can use and contribute to over time. It is at:
> 
> http://techessence.info/apis/
> 
> Please email me any suggested additions or changes. Or, if you're one of
> these people: http://techessence.info/about/ you know you can do it
> yourself. ;-) Thanks,
> Roy
> 
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