Umlaut & 360 Link

[Ken Varnum]

Have any Umlaut users connected Umlaut to the 360 Link API? If so, I'd like to hear about your experiences.

Ken Varnum

Senior Program Manager

  for Discovery, Delivery, and Learning Analytics

University Library

University of Michigan 

[PHILLIPS M.E.]

At Durham we are using Umlaut with WebBridge from Innovative Interfaces.  As far as I know we are the only user not using Umlaut with SFX.  If you have a link to documentation on the 360 Link API, I could take a look if you like and give you my assessment of how hard it would be to integrate Umlaut with it.  It would probably only be a matter of writing a single service adaptor.  I just took the SFX adaptor and adapted it J

 

Matthew

 

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[Ken Varnum]

Thanks, Matthew -- I appreciate the information. 

The API documentation is pretty poor (and behind Serials' Solutions customer login). A sample XML output that the API generates is here:

http://dl2af5jf3e.openurl.xml.serialssolutions.com/openurlxml/?version=1.0&&paramdict=en-US&genre=article&spage=59&SS_issnh=1941-126X&issn=1941126X&SS_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fdl2af5jf3e.search.serialssolutions.com%2F%3FSS_Page%3Drefiner%26SS_RefinerEditable%3Dyes&issue=1&date=2015-01&aulast=Tonyan&atitle=LITA+2014+Forum%3A+Conference+Report&title=Journal+of+Electronic+Resources+Librarianship&localeid=1033&aufirst=Joel&paramdict=en-US&SS_LibHash=DL2AF5JF3E&sid=info%3Asid%2Fsersol%3ARefinerQuery&pages=59-61&SS_source=48&l=DL2AF5JF3E&SS_ReferentFormat=JournalFormat&SS_meta_enhanced=true&SS_doi=10.1080%2F1941126X.2015.999566&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&au=Tonyan%2C+Joel&citationsubmit=Look+Up&volume=27&SS_RequestType=1&epage=61&&SS_PostParamDict=disableOneClick

I have colleagues here who could help with the adapter; I suspect it won't be all that tricky. I was asking more about any unexpected issues with the way the API or the data were implemented, if any.

Ken

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[Ross Singer]

Ken, it should be *really* trivial to crib from the SFX parser for 360Link:  we (Talis) have written parsers for both and, although the XPaths are different, and services are grouped differently, they follow a really similar pattern.

It helps to think of what both of them produce as more of an 'XML output' as opposed to an API.

Are you familiar with the SFX XML output?

-Ross.

[PHILLIPS M.E.]

From the example you gave below it looks like you should find it quite easy to give a good result from a service adaptor for 360 Link.  It would be really good to show Umlaut working with more resolvers.

[Ken Varnum]

Thanks, Ross. Seems like it won't be too challenging to set up Umlaut with 360 Link. If we do (even for testing) we'll share the code!

Ken 

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Ken Varnum

Senior Program Manager for Discovery, Delivery, and Learning Analytics

Library Information Technology

University of Michigan Library

var...@umich.edu | @varnum | 734-615-3287

http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum