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 own Wikipedia page.
- In theory, Scriblio supports unAPI, too.
To me, the most exciting thing here is the level of integration possible now. And when I say “integration”, I mean “making things easier for users, so they can get on with their work without worrying about backend nonsense.” The most prominent FLOSS library systems - Koha and Evergreen - both support unAPI now. Scriblio is an important up-and-comer which proves the value of its build-on-commodity-apps strategy because it simply gains unAPI support when WordPress gained unAPI support.
Add Zotero - with an active user count apparently now in the hundreds of thousands - to the mix, and we have the makings of a real case for broader adoption… in the form of real users, the only kind that matters. Hopefully 2008 will bring much more attention, especially with the growth of linked data resources.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Just a quick note that we’ve added unAPI support to our MetaLib (by Ex Libris) based library portal, Nelli, to make it work better with Zotero. The code is available for other MetaLib customers at Ex Libris’ EL Commons site.
–Ere
December 17th, 2008 at 5:40 am
An unAPI implementation for OCLC/PICA LBS systems is available from
ftp://ftp.ub.uni-marburg.de/pub/pica/unapi.tar.gz