08 January 2003

ISSNs and Z39.50. Thanks to Alf Eaton, author of HubMed, an alternative interface to the PubMed database, for noting that LibraryLookup could easily be extended to match ISSNs. I've made the change, and if you reacquire (or recreate) your Innovative or iPac bookmarklet, you can look up an article from an abstract page like this one. ... [Jon's Radio] posted at: 11:06:40 AM   RSS Bandit. Dare Obasanjo: So this morning I decided to write an RSS News aggregator. My advice is to test it on Joe's and Shelley's feeds. This requires two simple, albeit a bit unconventional, rules: anything in the namespace of the DocumentElement is equivalent to the null namespace, and items can be either inside or outside of channels. And then there are synonyms, e.g., dc:subject vs category... [Sam Ruby] posted at: 11:05:45 AM   New rdflib release. rdflib 1.2.0 is now the latest stable release of Daniel 'eikeon' Krech's Python RDF parser/generator. Do check it out if you're working with RDF. It takes much of the guesswork out of it, and makes it very easy to generate valid, meaningful RDF. Comment [Second p0st] posted at: 11:01:59 AM   Genus, species, and ISBN. Jiri Ludvik has identified a new class of LibraryLookup-compatible OPACs: Talis systems. I'll go ahead and derive a service list from that page, and add Talis to the bookmarklet generator, but Jiri's contribution raises another ISBN complication. ... [Jon's Radio] posted at: 11:00:58 AM   Andre Torrez: "This application allows you to map out a new XML-RPC message with a tree control and then submit that request to any XML-RPC server. The response is then viewable in a separate window." [Scripting News] posted at: 11:00:26 AM   Charles Cook updated XML-RPC for .Net. [Scripting News] posted at: 11:00:07 AM   Chris Morley: "A new C++ implementation of XML-RPC client and server for easy integration in C++ apps based on py-xmlrpc.". [Scripting News] posted at: 10:59:37 AM   Where angels fear to tread. Roger Costello's excellent XML Schema Tutorial includes a detailed breakdown of the ISBN. I've excerpted the documentation (along with Roger's GPL) here. The example also includes a complete ISBN schema, which involves a huge pile of regular expressions. The hyphens, which most book-related Web services ignore, are meant to carve up the address space in a very TCP/IP-like way: ... [Jon's Radio] posted at: 10:55:34 AM

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