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unAPI updates: in Zotero, Koha, Wikipedia, and updated for WordPress
It's been a long time since the last post here, but that doesn't mean unAPI adoption (such as it is) hasn't moved forward since then. Zotero, the amazing online research manager, now (as of 1.0) fully supports unAPI. The unAPI plugin for Wordpress was recently updated. Koha 3 supports unAPI. unAPI made into its ...
Updated Wordpress plugin for unAPI
Michael Giarlo has updated the Wordpress plugin to be "fully" "Wordpressy". Check it out - it even comes with its own admin pane under the Options / unAPI: That's what it looks like when running here, on this blog. Which it is, now. Great work!
“Introducing unAPI” in Ariadne 48
Our latest article is "Introducing unAPI" and is available in Ariadne 48: "Daniel Chudnov, Peter Binkley, Jeremy Frumkin, Michael J. Giarlo, Mike Rylander, Ross Singer and Ed Summers describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications." That's right, seven authors! For the record, everybody on ...
New unAPI wiki, formats list
Xiaoming Liu has started a unAPI wiki and seeded it with a list of existing formats found in unAPI services. This will be really useful as more unAPI services come online... if you're starting to implement unAPI yourself, check this list first. If your formats aren't on the list, follow ...
unAPI Version 1 Completed
unAPI Version 1 is finished. The only changes from revision 3, the previous revision, were those needed for the history section and minor wording tweaks. Many thanks to everybody who generously contributed their time and attention to help make unAPI the best darned specification for copying objects out of webapps by format ...
Mentions in latest Ariadne, D-Lib
unAPI mentions appear in both the latest issue of Ariadne: "Serving Services in Web 2.0" by Theo van Veen, and in the latest issue of D-Lib -- "Digital Library Federation (DLF) Aquifer Project" by Katherine Kott et al.
Hubmed supports unAPI rev3
Alf Eaton's excellent HubMed now supports unAPI revision 3. Try it for yourself: look for the unAPI LINK after an arbitrary search, and the ABBR elements on each hit with class='unapi-id', and compose these into a unAPI formats list for some hit. Particularly cool in this implementation is the addition ...
WordPress plugin updated for unAPI rev3
mjgiarlo has posted a revision of pbinkley's unAPI plugin for wordpress. It is up and running on his blog, and here on all entries at unapi.info/news (including this very one!). This also means that the "complete example" links in the informative section of revision 3 are alive and working again. Thanks, Michael ...
unAPI revision 3 published
unAPI revision 3 is available. This revision incorporates many significant changes from revision 2 and has become much simpler and shorter to boot! Specific changes include: Any kind of identifier may now be used (previously required URIs) SPAN changed to ABBR unAPI class changed to "unapi-id" unAPI LINK rel changed to "unapi-server" Response format simplified, optional ...
Revision 3, Final version 1 delayed two weeks
Due to holidays and other reasons, the publishing dates of the next revision of unAPI and the final version have been pushed back two weeks each. Revision 3, the "ballot spec", will be released on Thursday, May 4, 2006. Version 1, the final version, will be published on Thursday, June 1, 2006.