Hello Ottawa Public Library
And no, that isn’t a membership card in my pocket. I’m just happy to see your new catalog. Your FANTASTIC new catalog.
The crunky old catalog has been replaced with a shiny new BiblioCommons website. With a bit of searching, I managed to track down some info on BiblioCommons:
- They have a terrible website.
- Their founder, Beth Jefferson, appears to be a mix of volunteer-ist and entrepreneur (imagine that!).
- Beth talks about BiblioCommons in a podcast I haven’t listened to yet.
- They seem to snarf information from Amazon. (Their images come directly from Amazon)
- I am addicted to annotating books.
As far as I can tell, they don’t have an official API. I managed to find a Drupal module that professes to do BiblioCommons stuff, but I don’t know enough about Drupal to tell what it’s up to.
And their login pages confuse cURL. Boo!
Hi there – came across this post referencing our new catalogue interface, and thought I’d take a moment to answer two questions:
1. There is an API available, but it’s somewhat draft at the moment and I can’t promise stability – http://bibliocommons.biblioottawalibrary.ca/info/api/
2. The Drupal module is currently in development, and is primarily for the purpose of providing a means of single-sign on with some of our other systems (one of which will be a Drupal site we’re working on now).