Submitted by admin on October 24, 2009 - 10:41
Roy Tennant and Owen Stephens compiled an extensive list of library-related APIs.
Library services
- Amazon
- Book Cover Images (LibraryThing)
- Classify (OCLC) - Find Dewey and Library of Congress classification numbers for library items (e.g., books, DVDs, etc.).
- COPAC Search (SRU) and MODS XML fetch by identifer (major University and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library)
- DBPedia - Structured information from Wikipedia
- DOI Resolution (CrossRef) - Requires an account
- Google Book Search API - link to items in GBS, and find out about their availability
- Guess OPAC System (OCLC) - An experimental service that tries to intelligently detect the OPAC vendor and its ISBN,ISSN, and OCLCNUM linking template.
- Hathi Trust - Library-hosted books digitized by Google
- High-Level Thesaurus (HILT) Project - Cross-searching of various controlled vocabularies and terminologies.
- Library of Congress Subject Headings (Library of Congress) - LCSH as linked data using SKOS
- LibraryThing JSON Books API
- LibraryThing Web Services API (LibraryThing)
- Metadata Crosswalk Service (OCLC, Experimental) - Transforms metadata from one format to another.
- OpenCalais (Thomson Reuters) - Creates rich semantic metadata for the content you submit
- Open Library
- OpenURL Gateway (OCLC) - delivers "Where Are You From?" resolver services via portable and institution-independent OpenURL links
- pewbot (Huddersfield University Library) - "People who borrowed this also borrowed that" service
- Scopus (Elsevier) - Search this massive journal article database
- Talis Platform
- Terminology services (OCLC) - Various controlled vocabularies, including LCSH, MeSH, and TGM
- ThingISBN (LibraryThing) - Takes an ISBN and returns a list of ISBNs from the same "work" (i.e., other editions and translations)
- ThingLang (LibraryThing) - Takes an ISBN and returns the language of the book
- ThingTitle (LibraryThing) - Takes a title and returns a list ISBNs from the most likely LibraryThing "work," the LibraryThing title and a link to the LibraryThing work page
- Virtual International Authority File (Library of Congress (LC), the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), and OCLC)
- Worldcat Identities (OCLC) - Get information about people/organizations listed in Worldcat
- WorldCat Registry and detail (OCLC) - Find and retrieve basic information about institutions and consortia profiled in the WorldCat Registry, not limited to OCLC members
- WorldCat Search Service (OCLC) - API to the largest bibliographic database in the world
- xISBN (OCLC) - Find all the ISBNs plus edition and other metadata related to a work
- xISSN (OCLC) - Find all the related ISSNs
- xOCLCNUM (OCLC) - Find all OCLC Numbers plus edition and other data related to a work
Individual Library Catalogs
- Mirlyn (University of Michigan)
- North Carolina State University
Directories
- Information Environment Service Registry (JISC)
- ProgrammableWeb.com - Both library and non-library services.
Tools & Specifications
- Atom Publishing Protocol
- DLF ILS Discovery Task Group (DLF-ILS) Technical Recommendation (Digital Library Federation) - "An API for effective interoperation between integrated library systems and external discovery
applications." - IndexData Software Tools
- Jangle - An open specification for exposing content (starting with, although not exclusive to, library services) consistently and simply using the Atom Publishing Protocol.
- OpenSRF (Evergreen)
- PatREST and more (including modules to interface w/III) (John Blyberg)
- SRU: Search and Retrieve via SRU (Library of Congress) - Next generation library search and retrieve protocol
- Z39.50 (NISO) - Legacy search and retrieve protocol
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- API Workshop Outcomes and Future Directions
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- API Links and References
- Introduction to Mashups and APIs
- The Need for APIs in the Digital Humanities
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