OpenSearch is a common way of querying a database for content and returning the results. The idea is that it brings sanity to the proliferation of search APIs, but a realistic view would have to admit that we’ve been trying to do that since before the development of z39.50 in libraries decades ago, and the [...]

Posted May 3, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: DeWitt Clinton, interview, open formats, opensearch, protocols, rss, search, search syndication. Be the first one.

I really need to keep better tabs on Michael Fagan, as his June 11 OpenSearch Update is full of goodies.
OpenSearch, OpenSearch referrer extension, extensions, microformats, search suggestions

Posted August 1, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: extensions, microformats, opensearch, OpenSearch referrer extension, search suggestions. One Comment.

OpenSearch is a standard way of querying a database for content and returning the results.
The official docs note simply: “Any website that has a search feature can make their results available in OpenSearch format,” then adds: “Publishing your search results in OpenSearch™ format will draw more people to your content, by exposing it to a [...]

Posted July 19, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: a9, api, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, opensearch, search, search aggregator, search api. 2 Comments.

I’m honored to join Katie Bauer, of Yale University Library, in a program coordinated by Mary Jane Kelsey, of Yale Law’s Lillian Goldman Library.
The full title of our program is Technology Scouts: how to keep your library and ILS current in the IT world (H-4, 4PM Tuesday, room 274). My portion of the presentation [...]

Posted July 11, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: AALL, AALL2006, American Association of Law Libraries, api, conference, law libraries, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, opensearch, presentation, rss, web 2.0, web20, xml. Be the first one.

I’ve been meaning to point out (and steal from) Dave Pattern’s post on tipping off IE7 (and other browsers soon too, hopefully) to available OpenSearch targets for some time now. I haven’t had time to do the stealing, so I’ll have to settle for pointing it out while it’s still news.
What’s the trick? As Dave [...]

Posted March 9, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: autodiscovery, dave pattern, davey p, ie7, opensearch, opensearch autodiscovery, search api. One Comment.

I prefaced my point about how the standards we choose in libraries isolate us from the larger stream of progress driving development outside libraries with the note that I was sure to get hanged for it.
It’s true.
I commented that there were over 140,00 registered Amazon API developers and 365 public OpenSearch targets (hey look, there’s [...]

Posted February 23, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: a9, amazon api, amazon web services, argument, AWS, cage match, code4lib, code4lib 2006, future libraries, information retrieval, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library standards, opensearch, search, search and retrieval, search retrieval, sru/srw, srw/sru, web services. 5 Comments.

I just received this email from the A9 OpenSearch team:
We have just released OpenSearch 1.1 Draft 2. We hope to declare it the final version shortly, and it is already supported by A9.com. Uprading from a previous version should only take a few minutes…
OpenSearch 1.1 allows you to specify search results in HTML, Atom, or [...]

Posted December 13, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: a9, a9.com, aggregated search, amazon, federated search, libraries, library, library catalog, library catalogs, metasearch, opac, open search, opensearch, search. 4 Comments.

No, I’m not talking about the interface our users see in the web browser — there’s enough argument about that — I’m talking about web services, the technologies that form much of the infrastructure for Web 2.0.
Once upon a time, the technology that displayed a set of data, let’s say catalog records, was inextricably [...]

Posted November 30, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: amazon, amazon api, amazon web services, api, dublin core, ead, libraries, library, library catalog, marc, marc-xml, opac data, opensearch, web 2.0, web service, web services, web20, webservice, webservices, xml, xml server. 6 Comments.

A9, the search engine from Amazon.com, does some pretty interesting things that libraries should be aware of. First, any library considering a metasearch product should look at what can be done for free, and second, libraries should take a look at the OpenSearch technology that drives it.
So now, when searching for Harry Potter, you’ll also [...]

Posted October 21, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: a9, lamson library, metasearch, michigan state university, opensearch, plymouth state university, ryan eby, search engine, search engines, search technology, seattle public library, university, web search, websearch, xslt. Be the first one.