[Web4lib] OPAC outputs in JSON - adding opac results to google

[Annette Bailey]

Godmar Back and I recently created a web service for the III Millennium
catalog that outputs MARC and circulation information in JSON.  It's
widgetized for ease of use (so you don't have to muck around with JavaScript
if you're not so inclined).

http://libx.lib.vt.edu/services/majax2/

Annette

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Annette Bailey
Digital Assets Librarian
Newman Library
Virginia Tech University Libraries
Blacksburg, Virginia
PH: (540) 231-9266


On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Rosenberger, Luke E <rosenberger at uthscsa.edu
> wrote:

> I believe that NCSU's CatalogWS Web API to their Endeca-based search may
> also offer JSON as an output format.  Here's the general documentation
> for the API (which doesn't mention JSON):
>
> http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/ws/documentation/search.html
>
> ...but here's a SlideShare presentation by Emily Lynema from code4lib
> 2007 which mentions on slide 10 that "json" could be used as an option
> for the "output" parameter:
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/eby/free-the-data-creating-a-web-services-inte
> rface-to-the-online-catalog<http://www.slideshare.net/eby/free-the-data-creating-a-web-services-inte%0Arface-to-the-online-catalog>
>
> Very interesting idea you've got there, Aaron... I'd love to hear more
> as it develops.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Tay
> Sent: Sunday, 07 June, 2009 11:15
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] OPAC outputs in JSON - adding opac results to google
>
> Hi all
>
> Recently I came across a OPAC that outputs search results in JSON,
>
> something like
> http://academic.demo.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=obama
> &format=rss2but<http://academic.demo.kohalibrary.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=obama%0A&format=rss2but>
> for Json instead of RSS.
>
> Unfortunately I lost the url, does anyone know which OPAC/discovery
> platform
> does this?
>
> Ultimately my idea is to adapt a greasemonkey script like
> http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43451 which shows Twitter results
> (JSON
> ouput) automatically on top of google searches, but to put library
> catalogue
> results instead of Twitter results.
>
> Has this being done before? I wonder if this can also be done with RSS
> output as well..
>
> Thanks
> Aaron
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