I've started the initial work on a module to integrate with Wikipedia (MediaWiki). This first version will use screen-scraping to pull data from OL in order to avoid delaying the project while Open Library develops its API.
Specifically, Wikimedia's API priorities are:
* An OpenSearch foundation for querying the system
* Most importantly, this should allow querying by unique IDs in Open Library
* Later, we will need full-text searching and querying by Open Library record timestamps for creation and updates
* Basic XML records delivered as results from the system
* Enough to fill in Wikipedia's citation templates
We'd like to move forward on API implementation over the next few weeks.
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Yes, totally moving on this asap...Anand, any help on the documentation on the AP?
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I've started the initial work on a module to integrate with Wikipedia (MediaWiki). This first version will use screen-scraping to pull data from OL in order to avoid delaying the project while Open Library develops its API.
Specifically, Wikimedia's API priorities are:
* An OpenSearch foundation for querying the system
* Most importantly, this should allow querying by unique IDs in Open Library
* Later, we will need full-text searching and querying by Open Library record timestamps for creation and updates
* Basic XML records delivered as results from the system
* Enough to fill in Wikipedia's citation templates
We'd like to move forward on API implementation over the next few weeks.
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Yes, totally moving on this asap...Anand, any help on the documentation on the AP?