Maps of place of publication
Submitted by MMcM on Thu, 2006-07-27 06:59.
I have a spare-time hack that uses Google Maps to show where tagged books in LibraryThing were published. Having learned more than anyone reasonably should about MARC, I enhanced it to work with the results of Z39.50 queries too.
Is this in bounds as you imagined? I have no affiliation with any library (other than my library cards). I didn't use any Talis APIs, but I could try. From a quick glance, I didn't see any that returned that kind of information. Something that supported complex queries would be interesting, since none of the public Z39.50 or SRW servers I could find seem to. Which is frustrating because the OPACs do.
That is certainly within scope
That idea is certainly within scope. As the competition info stresses, there is no requirement to use a Talis API, although there are certainly plenty of things that might usefully and valuably be done with them.
Paul Miller
Technology Evangelist, Talis