LibLime is developing a new open platform for sharing bibliographic records as part of its forthcoming ‡biblios.net project (now in beta at http://beta.biblios.net). As part of this platform, LibLime is making available bibliographic records via several protocols: z39.50 and SRU for starters, eventually via a REST protocol and OAI-PMH.

LibLime is also allowing write access to the records via the protocol ‡biblios uses to interact with Koha. This api (documented more fully at the biblios.org site) looks like the following:

authenticate: POST username=x password=y. Receives: cookie for session use
bib_profile: GET. Receives: xml document describing marc21 fields in use by backend Koha server.
bib/xxx: GET: Retrieves a marcxml document at xxx bib number.
bib/xxx: POST: Saves posted marcxml document to server.
new_bib: POST: Saves marcxml document (new to database) to server.

In the coming weeks we will announce publicly available urls for these access services, so sharpen your pencils and get ready to collaboratively share and edit some records!

This entry was posted on Monday, December 8th, 2008 at 10:24 am by Chris Catalfo and is filed under APIs, Biblios, MARC21, Metadata. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.