Open AccessWeb Services and Widgets for Library Information Systems
Author(s) -
Godmar Back,
Annette Bailey
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
information technology and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.502
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5226
pISSN - 0730-9295
DOI - 10.6017/ital.v29i2.3146
Subject(s) - computer science , world wide web , information system , web page , web application , web service , electrical engineering , engineering
As more libraries integrate information from web services to enhance their online public displays, techniques that facilitate this integration are needed. This paper presents a technique for such integration that is based on HTML widgets. We discuss three example systems (Google Book Classes, Tictoclookup, and MAJAX) that implement this technique. These systems can be easily adapted without requiring programming experience or expensive hosting