openurl as microformat
The Search
Author: John Battelle
Year: 2005
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
ISBN: 1591840880
Ok, so The Search is a great book so far…but I’m really just testing some local modifications I made to the structured blogging tool to use Book OpenURL KEV parameter names as a microformat. Take a look in the HTML and you should see them hiding there.
Here’s a somewhat prettified version as an image since I couldn’t get my syntax highlighter plugin to do a nice enough job with the HTML.
Pretty simple stuff right? Notice the COinS in there too? That’s thanks to Dan’s hacking at structured blogging. Actually getting openurl KEV support into structured blogging is another idea of Dan’s. Go Chudnov.
Update 01/19/2006 09:39 CST: Dan got similar support for journal articles. If this stuff caught on it could really revolutionize academic blogging…and more.
January 23rd, 2006 at 11:37 am
Hm, interesting.
I wrote a little XSLT and was able to generate a first pass at openurl microformatted pages from the Ann Arbor District Library’s catalog.
Grab http://www.superpatron.com/aadl-openurl.xsl as the stylesheet, and then apply it to http://www.superpatron.com/aadlexample.xml to see what it looks like. I didn’t get the COINS stuff working on a first go-around, but it should be straightforward enough.
A few things were funky. The AADL REST interface (see Blyberg’s blog for details) doesn’t have a separate “publication year” field, rather putting it formatted in the “pubinfo” field. The “author” field I get easily is a string like “Vielmetti, Edward 1964-” rather than “Edward Vielmetti”. But it looks like it generates something reasonable.
A second pass at doing this against a bigger catalog would be to do a similar transform against SRU so that you could snag these records from e.g. the Library of Congress.