Sweden’s Stockholm University Integrates EBSCO Discovery Service API into Library Software Platform
blog.programmableweb.com
on 04/26/2013
Excerpt: EBSCO announced that Sweden’s Stockholm University has selected the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) which includes custom integration of the EDS API into the institution’s library software platform. The University was looking for a reliable search and discovery solution that would be easy to integrate with the existing library software platform. Image Credit: EBSCO
The Integration of the EDS API with Stockholm University’s library software platform provides students access to advanced search functions such as rich metadata, relevancy ranking, full-text linking and other augmented search functions. The EBSCO Discovery Service also allows access to critical subject indexes and supports facets, limiters and expanders.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Library, Library Services
What We Hope the Digital Public Library of America Will Become
blog.okfn.org
on 04/17/2013
Excerpt: If you’ve been following it, you’ll know that it has the long term aim of realising “a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all”. More specifically, Robert Darnton, Director of the Harvard University Library and one of the DPLA’s leading advocates to date, recently wrote in the New York Review of Books, that the DPLA aims to:
make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of charge
What will this practically mean? How will the DPLA translate this broad mission into action?... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Library, Story
NYPL Releases Digital Collections API to the Public
www.thedigitalshift.com
on 04/07/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Application, Google, Googlereader, Ifttt, Interface, Library, Programming
ApiService
api.repo.nypl.org
on 04/03/2013
Excerpt: For more than a century, The New York Public Library has amassed an extraordinary trove of rare and unique material covering the full spectrum of recorded knowledge. Now, for the first time, significant portions of the Library's digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over 1 million objects and records for you to search, crawl and compute. Sign up and get hacking today! The most recent version of the API is v1.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Launch, Library, Story
Ember at Embedly: Introduction to Ember Development
blog.embed.ly
on 03/29/2013
Excerpt: Every time I see Ember on Hacker News it’s being trashed, like MongoDB trashed. It sucks for an open source project when the herd mentality kicks in and it becomes cool to hate. Sadly, I’m not one of the cool kids. Ember is excellent. We use it extensively here at Embedly for our developer dashboard. While none of us here are JavaScript experts, Ember has made us incredibly productive. We are going to do a series of posts on Ember at Embedly. Mostly tips and tricks that have made us successful. These are not aimed at the pro, but the amateur. A lot goes in to baking a production-quality website, and Ember adds to that. As a result, there is a lot of boilerplate when it comes to setting up the development environment.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Embed, Ember, Library, Social Media
Learning How to Open Up Data at the National Library of Scotland
openglam.org
on 03/01/2013
Excerpt: Back in May 2012 I heard via Karen Coyle (who’s based in California) that there was an Open Knowledge Foundation Meet-up in a pub just 50 metres from my office at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s amazing how the web works! I had never heard of Open Knowledge Foundation before but given that I was trying to learn more about open data and had questions about how to publish data openly (and perhaps really because the meeting was in the pub …. mmm beer) I decided to attend.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Library, Open
Library lending figures: which books are most popular? | News | guardian.co.uk
www.guardian.co.uk
on 02/09/2013
Excerpt: How many people are borrowing books from UK libraries? And what are the most popular titles and authors? Thanks to the latest book lending data from the Public Lending Right (PLR), which manages payments to authors, we now have an insight into the nation's favourite books. Best-selling author James Patterson charges ahead with more than 2. 4m loans. The best-selling writer is the most borrowed author, his book 10th Anniversay (co-written with Maxine Paetro) tops the list of most borrowed books and he makes 15 appearances in the top 100 most borrowed titles list. Not bad.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Library
FEDLINK Manages Info Acquisition
www.loc.gov
on 01/16/2013
Excerpt: The Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK), a unit of the Library of Congress, will manage the acquisition of information products and services – such as subscriptions, books, maps and newspapers – on behalf of federal agencies that opt into the program. The service could potentially save hundreds of millions of dollars and increase access to information resources for the benefit of the American people. Currently, more than 20 federal agencies, both military and civilian – including FEDLINK – participate in the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Congress:, Googlereader, Ifttt, Library, News
EBSCO Releases API for Discovery Service
campustechnology.com
on 06/11/2012
Excerpt: EBSCO Publishing, which provides online research databases for libraries, has released a revamped tool to make it easier for their customers to provide search results in the interface of their choice but with EBSCO touches. The company is now selling an upgraded EBSCO Discovery Tool Application Programming Interface (API), which allows a technical staff to reproduce the Discovery Service result list and detailed record exactly as seen in the EBSCO product or to customize the display to fit a different interface. EBSCO's Discovery Service lets libraries integrate results from multiple sources and adds features such as relevancy ranking, full-text linking, persistent links, custom links, book jacket images, and other components.... read the full post.
Tags: Discovery, Education, Library
Excerpt: If you’ve been following it, you’ll know that it has the long term aim of realising “a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all”. More specifically, Robert Darnton, Director of the Harvard University Library and one of the DPLA’s leading advocates to date, recently wrote in the New York Review of Books, that the DPLA aims to: make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of charge What will this practically mean? How will the DPLA translate this broad mission into action?... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Library, Story
NYPL Releases Digital Collections API to the Public
www.thedigitalshift.com
on 04/07/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Application, Google, Googlereader, Ifttt, Interface, Library, Programming
ApiService
api.repo.nypl.org
on 04/03/2013
Excerpt: For more than a century, The New York Public Library has amassed an extraordinary trove of rare and unique material covering the full spectrum of recorded knowledge. Now, for the first time, significant portions of the Library's digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over 1 million objects and records for you to search, crawl and compute. Sign up and get hacking today! The most recent version of the API is v1.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Launch, Library, Story
Ember at Embedly: Introduction to Ember Development
blog.embed.ly
on 03/29/2013
Excerpt: Every time I see Ember on Hacker News it’s being trashed, like MongoDB trashed. It sucks for an open source project when the herd mentality kicks in and it becomes cool to hate. Sadly, I’m not one of the cool kids. Ember is excellent. We use it extensively here at Embedly for our developer dashboard. While none of us here are JavaScript experts, Ember has made us incredibly productive. We are going to do a series of posts on Ember at Embedly. Mostly tips and tricks that have made us successful. These are not aimed at the pro, but the amateur. A lot goes in to baking a production-quality website, and Ember adds to that. As a result, there is a lot of boilerplate when it comes to setting up the development environment.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Embed, Ember, Library, Social Media
Learning How to Open Up Data at the National Library of Scotland
openglam.org
on 03/01/2013
Excerpt: Back in May 2012 I heard via Karen Coyle (who’s based in California) that there was an Open Knowledge Foundation Meet-up in a pub just 50 metres from my office at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s amazing how the web works! I had never heard of Open Knowledge Foundation before but given that I was trying to learn more about open data and had questions about how to publish data openly (and perhaps really because the meeting was in the pub …. mmm beer) I decided to attend.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Library, Open
Library lending figures: which books are most popular? | News | guardian.co.uk
www.guardian.co.uk
on 02/09/2013
Excerpt: How many people are borrowing books from UK libraries? And what are the most popular titles and authors? Thanks to the latest book lending data from the Public Lending Right (PLR), which manages payments to authors, we now have an insight into the nation's favourite books. Best-selling author James Patterson charges ahead with more than 2. 4m loans. The best-selling writer is the most borrowed author, his book 10th Anniversay (co-written with Maxine Paetro) tops the list of most borrowed books and he makes 15 appearances in the top 100 most borrowed titles list. Not bad.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Library
FEDLINK Manages Info Acquisition
www.loc.gov
on 01/16/2013
Excerpt: The Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK), a unit of the Library of Congress, will manage the acquisition of information products and services – such as subscriptions, books, maps and newspapers – on behalf of federal agencies that opt into the program. The service could potentially save hundreds of millions of dollars and increase access to information resources for the benefit of the American people. Currently, more than 20 federal agencies, both military and civilian – including FEDLINK – participate in the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Congress:, Googlereader, Ifttt, Library, News
EBSCO Releases API for Discovery Service
campustechnology.com
on 06/11/2012
Excerpt: EBSCO Publishing, which provides online research databases for libraries, has released a revamped tool to make it easier for their customers to provide search results in the interface of their choice but with EBSCO touches. The company is now selling an upgraded EBSCO Discovery Tool Application Programming Interface (API), which allows a technical staff to reproduce the Discovery Service result list and detailed record exactly as seen in the EBSCO product or to customize the display to fit a different interface. EBSCO's Discovery Service lets libraries integrate results from multiple sources and adds features such as relevancy ranking, full-text linking, persistent links, custom links, book jacket images, and other components.... read the full post.
Tags: Discovery, Education, Library
Excerpt: For more than a century, The New York Public Library has amassed an extraordinary trove of rare and unique material covering the full spectrum of recorded knowledge. Now, for the first time, significant portions of the Library's digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over 1 million objects and records for you to search, crawl and compute. Sign up and get hacking today! The most recent version of the API is v1.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Launch, Library, Story
Ember at Embedly: Introduction to Ember Development
blog.embed.ly
on 03/29/2013
Excerpt: Every time I see Ember on Hacker News it’s being trashed, like MongoDB trashed. It sucks for an open source project when the herd mentality kicks in and it becomes cool to hate. Sadly, I’m not one of the cool kids. Ember is excellent. We use it extensively here at Embedly for our developer dashboard. While none of us here are JavaScript experts, Ember has made us incredibly productive. We are going to do a series of posts on Ember at Embedly. Mostly tips and tricks that have made us successful. These are not aimed at the pro, but the amateur. A lot goes in to baking a production-quality website, and Ember adds to that. As a result, there is a lot of boilerplate when it comes to setting up the development environment.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Embed, Ember, Library, Social Media
Learning How to Open Up Data at the National Library of Scotland
openglam.org
on 03/01/2013
Excerpt: Back in May 2012 I heard via Karen Coyle (who’s based in California) that there was an Open Knowledge Foundation Meet-up in a pub just 50 metres from my office at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s amazing how the web works! I had never heard of Open Knowledge Foundation before but given that I was trying to learn more about open data and had questions about how to publish data openly (and perhaps really because the meeting was in the pub …. mmm beer) I decided to attend.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Library, Open
Library lending figures: which books are most popular? | News | guardian.co.uk
www.guardian.co.uk
on 02/09/2013
Excerpt: How many people are borrowing books from UK libraries? And what are the most popular titles and authors? Thanks to the latest book lending data from the Public Lending Right (PLR), which manages payments to authors, we now have an insight into the nation's favourite books. Best-selling author James Patterson charges ahead with more than 2. 4m loans. The best-selling writer is the most borrowed author, his book 10th Anniversay (co-written with Maxine Paetro) tops the list of most borrowed books and he makes 15 appearances in the top 100 most borrowed titles list. Not bad.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Library
FEDLINK Manages Info Acquisition
www.loc.gov
on 01/16/2013
Excerpt: The Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK), a unit of the Library of Congress, will manage the acquisition of information products and services – such as subscriptions, books, maps and newspapers – on behalf of federal agencies that opt into the program. The service could potentially save hundreds of millions of dollars and increase access to information resources for the benefit of the American people. Currently, more than 20 federal agencies, both military and civilian – including FEDLINK – participate in the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Congress:, Googlereader, Ifttt, Library, News
EBSCO Releases API for Discovery Service
campustechnology.com
on 06/11/2012
Excerpt: EBSCO Publishing, which provides online research databases for libraries, has released a revamped tool to make it easier for their customers to provide search results in the interface of their choice but with EBSCO touches. The company is now selling an upgraded EBSCO Discovery Tool Application Programming Interface (API), which allows a technical staff to reproduce the Discovery Service result list and detailed record exactly as seen in the EBSCO product or to customize the display to fit a different interface. EBSCO's Discovery Service lets libraries integrate results from multiple sources and adds features such as relevancy ranking, full-text linking, persistent links, custom links, book jacket images, and other components.... read the full post.
Tags: Discovery, Education, Library
Excerpt: Back in May 2012 I heard via Karen Coyle (who’s based in California) that there was an Open Knowledge Foundation Meet-up in a pub just 50 metres from my office at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s amazing how the web works! I had never heard of Open Knowledge Foundation before but given that I was trying to learn more about open data and had questions about how to publish data openly (and perhaps really because the meeting was in the pub …. mmm beer) I decided to attend.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Library, Open
Library lending figures: which books are most popular? | News | guardian.co.uk
www.guardian.co.uk
on 02/09/2013
Excerpt: How many people are borrowing books from UK libraries? And what are the most popular titles and authors? Thanks to the latest book lending data from the Public Lending Right (PLR), which manages payments to authors, we now have an insight into the nation's favourite books. Best-selling author James Patterson charges ahead with more than 2. 4m loans. The best-selling writer is the most borrowed author, his book 10th Anniversay (co-written with Maxine Paetro) tops the list of most borrowed books and he makes 15 appearances in the top 100 most borrowed titles list. Not bad.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Library
FEDLINK Manages Info Acquisition
www.loc.gov
on 01/16/2013
Excerpt: The Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK), a unit of the Library of Congress, will manage the acquisition of information products and services – such as subscriptions, books, maps and newspapers – on behalf of federal agencies that opt into the program. The service could potentially save hundreds of millions of dollars and increase access to information resources for the benefit of the American people. Currently, more than 20 federal agencies, both military and civilian – including FEDLINK – participate in the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Congress:, Googlereader, Ifttt, Library, News
EBSCO Releases API for Discovery Service
campustechnology.com
on 06/11/2012
Excerpt: EBSCO Publishing, which provides online research databases for libraries, has released a revamped tool to make it easier for their customers to provide search results in the interface of their choice but with EBSCO touches. The company is now selling an upgraded EBSCO Discovery Tool Application Programming Interface (API), which allows a technical staff to reproduce the Discovery Service result list and detailed record exactly as seen in the EBSCO product or to customize the display to fit a different interface. EBSCO's Discovery Service lets libraries integrate results from multiple sources and adds features such as relevancy ranking, full-text linking, persistent links, custom links, book jacket images, and other components.... read the full post.
Tags: Discovery, Education, Library
Excerpt: The Federal Library and Information Network (FEDLINK), a unit of the Library of Congress, will manage the acquisition of information products and services – such as subscriptions, books, maps and newspapers – on behalf of federal agencies that opt into the program. The service could potentially save hundreds of millions of dollars and increase access to information resources for the benefit of the American people. Currently, more than 20 federal agencies, both military and civilian – including FEDLINK – participate in the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Congress:, Googlereader, Ifttt, Library, News
