eprintid: 1627
rev_number: 10
eprint_status: archive
userid: 35
dir: disk0/00/00/16/27
datestamp: 2018-05-09 19:55:45
lastmod: 2018-06-17 20:42:50
status_changed: 2018-05-09 19:55:45
type: conference_item
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Lybarger, Kathryn
title: Grima: Whispering in Alma's Ear Using APIs
ispublished: pub
subjects: Alma
subjects: DevDay
subjects: gen
divisions: eluna_conf
abstract: Libraries use Alma for a variety of workflows. Some workflows are complex and lengthy, and are repeated often. Some are used too infrequently to remember the best way to do them in Alma. Some workflows just require the data in different formats. In this talk, I will describe my system for expressing workflows as a sequence of API calls, making them easy to use, reproduce, and modify. 

My open-source library, Grima, provides web and command line interfaces for performing many common tasks in Alma. Some of these include: formatting records for printing, displaying records in a hierarchy, normalizing records, adding many items to a serial, creating bib-holding-item chains with common settings, and creating "boundwiths". Grima’s library (written in PHP) is general enough that new custom workflows can be quickly written for new projects.
date: 2018-05-01
full_text_status: restricted
pres_type: other
event_title: ELUNA 2018 Annual Meeting
event_location: Spokane, Washington
event_dates: May 1-4, 2018
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
citation: Lybarger, Kathryn (2018) Grima: Whispering in Alma's Ear Using APIs. In: ELUNA 2018 Annual Meeting, May 1-4, 2018, Spokane, Washington.
document_url: https://beta-documents.el-una.org/id/eprint/1627/1/Grima-devday.pdf