{"id":70,"date":"2006-08-27T12:57:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T17:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dilettantes.code4lib.org\/2006\/08\/27\/another-chudnov-et-al-joint\/"},"modified":"2006-08-27T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T17:57:50","slug":"another-chudnov-et-al-joint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/2006\/08\/another-chudnov-et-al-joint\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Chudnov-et-al joint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ariadne.ac.uk\/\">Ariadne #48<\/a> includes &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ariadne.ac.uk\/issue48\/chudnov-et-al\/\">Introducing unAPI<\/a>&#8220;, written by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onebiglibrary.net\/\">Dan<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/digitallibrarian.org\/\">Jeremy<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wallandbinkley.com\/quaedam\/\">Peter<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/net\/leftwing\/blog\">Michael<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/open-ils.org\/blog\/\">Mike<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inkdroid.org\/journal\/\">Ed<\/a> and me.  It explains the potential of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/unapi.info\/\">unAPI<\/a> and shows some examples on implementations.<\/p>\n<p>Like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dilettantes.code4lib.org\/2005\/04\/30\/as-talented-as-hemingway-or-faulkner-if-were-talking-about-the-drinking\/#comments\">the last article<\/a> I &#8220;wrote&#8221; with this group, I didn&#8217;t have to do much.  On the flipside, publishing has such a minute effect (if any) on my career, I guess the &#8220;effort&#8221; reflects the &#8220;rewards&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this one was tough.  A refactoring of the Umlaut broke the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/umlaut.library.gatech.edu\/unapi?\">unAPI interface<\/a> right about the time the editors were going over the example cases in the article.  It was extremely difficult to put development cycles into this when I had a ton of other things I desperately needed to get completed before the start of the semester.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s where the struggle is.  While I&#8217;m completely sold on the &#8220;potential&#8221; of unAPI, that&#8217;s all it is right now.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ocoins.info\/\">COinS<\/a> was much easier concept for me get behind (although I would definitely say I have invested more in unAPI than COinS) since it&#8217;d be so much easier to implement on both the information provider and client ends.  UnAPI is a much, <em>much<\/em> more difficult sell.  However, the payoff is <em>so<\/em> much greater, one has to have faith and sometimes dedicate time that should probably have been spent on more immediate needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariadne #48 includes &#8220;Introducing unAPI&#8220;, written by Dan, Jeremy, Peter, Michael, Mike, Ed and me. It explains the potential of unAPI and shows some examples on implementations. Like the last article I &#8220;wrote&#8221; with this group, I didn&#8217;t have to do much. On the flipside, publishing has such a minute effect (if any) on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-umlaut","category-unapi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rossfsinger.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}