unAPI news

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.

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 of alternate biblographic citation formats such as RDF, BibTeX, RIS, and MODS to those already available from Pubmed.

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 and Peter!

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 namespace_uri and schema_location removed
• Several informative notes added including a complete example, a response format schema, and suggestions for choosing identifiers and handling empty ABBR elements
• Contributor list updated
• Edited throughout for concision, clarity

Hopefully you will agree that this is the best unAPI yet.  Please consider adding unAPI to your web apps!