A new API from random house to search book contents and retrieve digitized page views. Looks potentially useful though I haven’t checked out all of the terms:
Through the Insight Service, keyword searches can get inside actual book content and find matches against the full text of the book. Insight can then serve up the pages [...]
Found quite a few new things today via Planet RDF which included a post about using URI’s to identify music items:
The question I had: what URI should I use for J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier? This is a non-trivial question if one wants to use, say, the Music Ontology in cataloging one’s music: indeed there is [...]
John Udell has a few requests for catalog vendors, including making it easier to search by ISBN and for related ISBN’s. Peter Murray commented that the url should probably be a bit more restful and mentioned PatREST. Talis responded that it would be quite simple except for the xISBN which could cost a lot with [...]
Sifting through the 200+ starred items in Google Reader I meant to blog months ago. One of the things I’ve always liked about Amazon was the versioned web-service. When they add features or change the structure your old application is still safe, presuming you’ve specified the version your using (I’ve made the mistake of not [...]
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