eprintid: 1418
rev_number: 9
eprint_status: archive
userid: 24
dir: disk0/00/00/14/18
datestamp: 2016-07-08 16:11:30
lastmod: 2016-07-08 16:11:30
status_changed: 2016-07-08 16:11:30
type: conference_item
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Barton, Bruce
title: Using Alma APIs for Catalog Discovery
ispublished: pub
subjects: Alma
subjects: primo
divisions: eluna_conf
abstract: The University of Wisconsin-Madison has implemented catalog discovery using the Alma BIB and USER APIs, and bib data published to Primo. (Live since May 2015.)  See https://search.library.wisc.edu.  This is our primary catalog discovery interface for the roughly 10.6 million titles held by Madison and 25 other UW System campuses.  The catalog is implemented with Ruby on Rails and uses Solr for faceted search.  Java and XSLT are used to generate the Solr index (updated twice daily).  We use the BIB APIs for checking availability at bib and item levels.   We use the USER API for submitting patron requests and for library account management:  loans and requests review, renewals, request cancellation, and fine/fees payments.  We've encapsulated the use of the Alma API in a Ruby GEM.  This talk describes our approach and our experience to date with the Alma APIs (it's been good).
date: 2016-05-03
full_text_status: restricted
pres_type: paper
event_title: ELUNA 2016 Annual Meeting
event_location: Oklahoma City, OK USA
event_dates: May 1-6, 2016
event_type: conference
refereed: FALSE
citation: Barton, Bruce (2016) Using Alma APIs for Catalog Discovery. In: ELUNA 2016 Annual Meeting, May 1-6, 2016, Oklahoma City, OK USA.
document_url: https://beta-documents.el-una.org/id/eprint/1418/1/Using%20Alma%20APIs%20for%20Discovery.pdf