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Web APIs for Catalogs

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  • #16264
    Stephen Zweibel
    Participant

    Thanks everyone for coming to my presentation! As promised, here are some links to relevant resources:

    My presentation slides, with examples and a small tutorial: http://www.zweibel.org/presentation.html

    The documentation for my catalog API: https://github.com/szweibel/CUNYplusmobile

    CUNY’s official catalog API: http://lookup.cunylibraries.org/

    Worldcat APIs: http://oclc.org/developer/services

    #27843

    Stephen, thanks for the great presentation today. I was just checking out the reveal.js software you used for your slides:

    http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/

    I noticed that there’s a hosted version you can use, too, called rvl.io:

    http://www.rvl.io/

    Cool stuff!

    #27844
    Stephen Zweibel
    Participant

    At the presentation I was asked to guide a workshop on using the CUNY catalog APIs. Now I’m trying to come up with a small project as an example, but I am not sure what people might be interested in, so I am asking here:

    If you’re interested in attending a workshop on this subject, which language would you prefer I focus on?

    Python: would be a small script that automates some collection development task, like creating an excel chart showing the catalog status of a list of books.

    Javascript: a web app that would combine catalog data with external info, for instance from Worldcat.

    In either case those who attend would need to have their development environment set up beforehand. Python has more work to its initial setup.

    #27845
    Junior Tidal
    Participant

    I would personally be interested in the Javascript web app.

    #27846
    Robin Camille Davis
    Participant

    I’m equally interested in both, but perhaps the Javascript app would be better to walk through first.

    #27847

    Both sounds great. A bit more difficult to get a smart classroom here. Stephen F. can you, or does everybody have access to a notebook?

    #27848
    Stefanie Havelka
    Participant

    Javascript would be fun

    #27849

    I can probably get a classroom with computers if we’re talking about something after mid-May. The next meeting we agreed was going to be May 6; the agenda was to talk about wifi. Maybe we could do this workshop for the June meeting?

    #27850
    Stephen Zweibel
    Participant

    Okay, seems like there’s more interest in Javascript, so that’s what we’ll do.

    I think the workshop will be around 3 hours long, and yes, we will need computers in the room, or better, have people bring their own laptops.

    June is fine with me as long as there are enough people around to justify a workshop. I’d like to advertise beyond this committee but I’m not sure what steps to take.

    #27851

    I can help you set this up Stephen if you contact me. I’m in this week.

    #27852

    Which Stephen?

    #27853

    Stephen K: I think Danielle was responding to Stephen Z.’s request for help advertising the June event.

    #27854

    Confusing because, in addition to the 3 Stephens, they work at the same shop.

    #27855

    Good thing the 3 Stephens don’t all work in the same library (although that would be fun for us).

    #27856

    Amen

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