DSpace REST API panel

Submitted by peterdietz on Fri, 2013-03-01 01:50
Author(s)
First Name: 
Peter
Last Name: 
Dietz
Affiliation: 
Ohio State University Libraries
First Name: 
Reinhard
Last Name: 
Engels
Affiliation: 
Harvard University Library Office for Scholarly Communication
First Name: 
Bill
Last Name: 
McKinney
Affiliation: 
Harvard University Library Office for Scholarly Communication
First Name: 
Richard
Last Name: 
Rodgers
Affiliation: 
MIT Libraries
First Name: 
Hardy
Last Name: 
Pottinger
Affiliation: 
University of Missouri Library Systems
First Name: 
Anja
Last Name: 
Le Blanc
Affiliation: 
Jorum, Manchester, UK
Keywords: 
DSpace; REST API; API; Ruby on Rails; Hydra; Client; User Interface
Track: 
DSpace User Group
Abstract: 

A REST API for Dspace allows your repository's content to be exposed in a programmatic way, enabling content use/re-use. We will give a brief primer on REST, and compare the REST API to other web services for DSpace, such as SWORD and LNI. The panel will discuss the existing DSpace API projects, the current work on the API Project, and some of the use cases motivating us to build the API. We will also leave time for an audience discussion about the REST API. Bring your questions and use cases to share with the panel to discuss.
Direction for discussion can range from a technical focus on the API, to what value-added services you could build upon an API.

Some of the guiding Use Cases thus far are:

Embed DSpace content into other websites (i.e. JS Widget);

Integrate DSpace content into other systems (i.e. Drupal, Omeka);

Build a user interface or “head” in a lightweight web app framework (i.e. Ruby on Rails).

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