[WEB4LIB] re: web services (was: Re: library marketing was RE:

[Andres Monroy-Hernandez]

Hi,

I'm a Developer for SFX, and I just wanted to mention in relation to
this topic that we have added SOAP support to the new SFX Ver. 3.
Originally this was implemented just to allow different SFX servers to
communicate with each other in a consortium environment, but it can be
used by anyone to communicate with SFX in a standard way. I guess some
people might be interested in using it in their own applications.

Regards,

--
Andres Monroy-Hernandez


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Darryl Friesen
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:24 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] re: web services (was: Re: library marketing was RE:

> Actually, this isn't true.  Both ExLibris and Sirsi have APIs (that I 
> can think of off the top of my head).  SFX, Aleph and Metalib 
> could all extended to provide much richer services, for someone
> with the vision (and, of course, Ex Libris products).

I guess I was thinking in terms of "catalogue" systems only when I made
my
original comment; I hadn't considered tools like SFX and Metalib.  Our
staff
seems to like our ILS system well enough, but as a programmer trying to
get
data in and out, to manipulate the I _can_ get out, and trying to
integrate
it with other systems, I have a totally opposite opinion.

We are an SFX site, and I must say I'm very impressed with it (and the
staff
at Ex Libris that I've dealt with).  We've made use of the SFX APIs, and
its
eliminated virtually all the work I used to do with respect to
ejournals.
We don't have Metalib (yet) but from what I've seen of it and it's
competitors, I am again impressed.


- Darryl

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  Darryl Friesen, B.Sc., Programmer/Analyst    Darryl.Friesen at usask.ca
  Education & Research Technology Services,     http://gollum.usask.ca/
  Information Technology Services Division,
  University of Saskatchewan
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  "Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes"



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