Ben Abrahamse, Chair of the Standing Committee on Applications, has agreed to convene and coordinate this subgroup activity. The API review/testing group will be a collaboration between interested members of SCA and any of the ISNI pilot participants. A technical contact from ISNI will also participate as needed.
The group will begin its work in October 2017.
Activities will include:
- Review ISNI API documentation to learn functionality and gaps. For members there are two ISNI APIs :
- SRU Search API for members
- The AtomPub API: the AtomPub API allows members and RAG’s to submit ISNI requests using the ISNI Request schema.
- Test functionality according to varied use cases
- Determine ease of use and identify support or additional documentation that would be necessary for PCC members availing themselves of this self-service model
- Identify and prioritize development roadmap for ISNI for maximum benefit of API interaction with ISNI
- Review ISNI API documentation to learn functionality and gaps. For members there are two ISNI APIs :
Institutions listed here have expressed interest in working on this subgroup topic. Others are welcome!
- Columbia University
- Harvard University
- Michigan State University
- UCLA
- University of California Davis
- University of Chicago
ISNI API relevant documentation
http://www.isni.org/content/documents-related-data-submission
ISNI SRU Search API: Guidelines and Examples
The Search API is using the SRU standard, version 1.1 and is also available to the general public.
