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Bed, Bath and Beyond:

RESTful, SOAP and

the World of Ex Libris

APIs

NE Code4Lib | October 2012

Ido Peled,

Primo Product Manager

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So What Am I Talking About ?

http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/

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And I’ll Focus on CodeShare

http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoOI/Home

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Last Time I Counted…

49

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CodeContributions

X-Services Web Services Plug-ins Deep Links Deep SearchAdapters

Guidelines

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Useful X-Services

What URL

Brief Search http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoOI/Brief+Search

E-Shelf Structure http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoOI/Get+E-ShelfStructure

RTA Plug-in http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoOI/RTA+Plug-In+%28new+version%29

Push To http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoOI/PushTo+Plug-In+%28export+records+to+social+bookmark+sites%29

File Splitter http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoOI/File+Splitter+Plug-In

EXL Tab API http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/Primo/EXL+Tab+API

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Essentials - (Freeware) Tools

Eclipse

http://www.eclipse.org/

Dropbox

https://www.dropbox.com/

Notepad++

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

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Development Skills (the more the better…)

What Why

CSS Colors, elements, layout

HTML Content

Javascript Actions, changes

jQuery Javascript framework

JSON Data

XML Data

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Examples

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Add Tab API

http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/Primo/EXL+Tab+API

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Add Tab API

http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/Primo/EXL+Tab+API

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Add Tab API

http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/Primo/EXL+Tab+API

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Customized Adwords

http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoCC/Adwords+Ho

twords+Integration+%28another+implementation%29

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Push To Mendeley

http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoCC/Plug-

in+for+Mendeley+%28PushTo+Plug-in%29

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Zero Results Options

http://primo.aub.aau.dk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=desktop

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Google Analytics

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Personal Favorites

• http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoCC/Adwords+Hotwords+

JavaScript+code

• http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoCC/Primo+Result+Extend

er+Aggregator+Service+%28PREAS%29

• http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoCC/FRBR+Display+Impro

vements

• http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoCC/LibGuides+Pipe+Con

figuration

• http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoCC/Change+the+Colour+

of+the+VERSIONS+tab

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Summary

• Lots of API available

• API covering the majority of the Primo functionality

• Many extensions already available

• Vibrant community

• Go out and build your own (and then share it !!)

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Thank You!

Ido.Peled@ExLibrisGroup.com