{"id":125,"date":"2008-06-07T02:13:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T09:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=125"},"modified":"2008-06-07T02:13:11","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T09:13:11","slug":"library-goes-down-the-pipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/06\/library-goes-down-the-pipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Library goes down the pipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The [BLT] Blog for Library Technology recently posted about some work in developing an easy to consume API with JSON output over the top of the Aleph Library System X-Server &#8211; excellent work documented at <a href=\"http:\/\/mblog.lib.umich.edu\/blt\/archives\/2008\/06\/new_rest-ful_ap.html\" title=\"http:\/\/mblog.lib.umich.edu\/blt\/archives\/2008\/06\/new_rest-ful_ap.html\">http:\/\/mblog.lib.umich.edu\/blt\/archives\/2008\/06\/new_rest-ful_ap.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just as a very quick demo of what you can achieve once this type of API is available, here is a Yahoo Pipe that prompts for an author surname and record range, and returns titles as an RSS &#8211; hopefully easy to extend from here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/pipe.info?_id=3IvBX_Ez3RGCzxe6JZhxuA\" title=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/pipe.info?_id=3IvBX_Ez3RGCzxe6JZhxuA\">http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/pipe.info?_id=3IvBX_Ez3RGCzxe6JZhxuA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#39;d originally hoped to take the output as JSON and feed into a <a href=\"http:\/\/simile.mit.edu\/timeline\/\">SIMILE Timeline<\/a> but this proved beyond my abilities\/brainat this time of the morning at least (if not at any time of day) &#8211; hopefully someone else will manage to do something on top of this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The [BLT] Blog for Library Technology recently posted about some work in developing an easy to consume API with JSON output over the top of the Aleph Library System X-Server &#8211; excellent work documented at http:\/\/mblog.lib.umich.edu\/blt\/archives\/2008\/06\/new_rest-ful_ap.html Just as a very quick demo of what you can achieve once this type of API is available, here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}