April 19, 2004

RedLightGreen not RESTful

[This was an email conversation since comment spammers had already hit the post on ISBNs...]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:41:13AM -0400, Hickey,Thom wrote:
>
> We tried to create a bookmarklet
> (http://alcme.oclc.org/bookmarks/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=ListRecords
>
> aPrefix=oai_dc> &metadataPrefix=oai_dc) for RedLightGreen, but your
> session-orientation foiled us. It would be nice if RLGreen were a bit
more
> 'RESTfull' so simple services could connect to it.
>

Thanks for your interest in RedLightGreen. As you may know, it's still
a pilot project for RLG. We're in the middle of investigating a number
of different issues and possibilities with the system, and i'm afraid
the session handling issue isn't as high a priority as some others. I
suspect our first change along those lines will be to make the
"edition views" free of the session overhead -- and free to be linked.
We've got some performance issues that we try to manage with the
sessions; refactoring the session starting and tuning some other
performance aspects will help lead us to a more "RESTful" state.

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April 16, 2004

Amazon search the book & the web

Try this search (which includes two words from a Browning sonnet).

http://a9.com/climb%20aornus

Alerted by DayPop Top 40....

...where i discover the search is powered by Google. I wonder what Alexa is up to? At least they're pulling in the "Site Info." There's a comment about how cool the toolbar is, and i wonder how much of that is built on the Alexa toolbar.

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