[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Book of Evergreen: suggestion for additional chapter

[Repke de Vries]

Hi DIG-ers

from a discussion in our DIG technical documentation subgroup, my  
suggestion and question to DIG at large:

should we add a chapter "Access by third party applications" or   
"Third Party Data Access" - and indeed what is it name?

I have the following in mind and don't see it easily fit elsewhere in  
the Book of Evergreen - please your comments:

- SRU searching Evergreen (including holding information from the  
"asset" tables)
- SuperCat type of pulling data from EG (I suppose this is a case of  
web services access over HTTP [or is it cgi-bin style])
- OpenSRF type of pulling (could be adding too) data from EG
- feeds: could be RSS, could be based on either of the two mentioned  
just above
- in a way: Z39.50 access in which EG is a target
- other suggestions ?

We have "Application Programming Interfaces" under Development which  
covers part of this but I am not sure from which angle and for which  
audience (likewise: Administration and "Z39.50 Sever")

I have something very practical in mind where you look up how to  
construct your URL + all available options, or look up putting a web  
service call together "Cook Book Style" for Third Party Applications.

Thanks, Repke