Fwd: JournalTOCs API - Alpha Release

[Erik Duval]

Seems like the sort of thing that we could eventually integrate into much of our mash-up development?

Might be useful to list such API's somewhere?

--Erik Duval

http://erikduval.wordpress.com/

http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~erikd/

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From: Lisa Rogers <mth...@MACS.HW.AC.UK>

Date: 23 Sep 2009 18:14:11 GMT+02:00

To: JISC-REP...@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Subject: JournalTOCs API - Alpha Release

Reply-To: Lisa Rogers <mth...@MACS.HW.AC.UK>

I am pleased to announce the alpha release of the API for the Journal TOCs JISC Rapid Innovation project.

http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/index.php?action=api

At the moment the API allows searching by journal title and searching by article.

Some examples are:
http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/journals/library gives a list of journals whose title contains the word library.
http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/journals/1533-290X returns the latest TOC of the journal with ISSN 1533-290X


http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/articles/corrosion gives a list of the latest articles containing the word corrosion.
http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/articles/%22University%20of%20Warwick%22 returns a list of latest articles by authors at "University of Warwick" (please notice the double quotes around University of Warwick for phrase searching).
http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/api/articles/dorothy+bishop returns a list of latest articles published by authors with the name Dorothy Bishop.

The aim of the JournalTOCsAPI project is to investigate two use cases using the API.

The 1st is to find new content for an Institutional Repository by alerting IR managers when a new article has been published.
The 2nd is to enhance the existing metadata in the IR by matching against articles in JournalTOCs.

We have established a community of users who will be testing the API for the two use cases documented above. If you would like to join this community, to test the API with your repository and to report bugs, please reply to l.j.r...@hw.ac.uk

We are still working with the development of the API, but we thought you may wish to see how it works and have the opportunity of steering its development.

If you have any general comments about the API or wish to test for other use cases than those mentioned above, please leave a comment on the project blog (http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/API/blog/?p=67) or email l.j.r...@hw.ac.uk

Best Regards,


Lisa Rogers

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Lisa J. Rogers (L.J.R...@hw.ac.uk)
Research Associate
Institute for Computer Based Learning
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Earl Mountbatten Building
Heriot Watt University
Edinburgh EH14 4AS
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk

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