A number of institutions are interested in collaborating on the creation of a reusable REST API for DSpace, and a library of JavaScript widgetsclient code/apps. This page will serve as a place to facilitate that collaboration, and to make the work transparent to the DSpace developer community.
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Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dspace-rest
Meeting notes from the DSpace Futures discussion: DSpace Futures REST API Meeting Notes
Use Cases
- JavaScript widgets for researcher pages
- Integrate DSpace data into other systems
- To provide statistics / analysis. Data visualization / Data mining.
- Queryable
- Integrate with Drupal, Omeka
- External User-Interface (i.e. Ruby on Rails)
Technical Feedback
- Look up Item by Handle, in addition to ID.
- It should be able to scale well, (implement caching)
- Some of the business logic being un-earthed could make other UI's get modified.
- i.e. OAI / RSS feeds to use REST API for certain parts
- lots of business logic should go somewhere DRY
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