RESTafarian-ism @ the NLA

Why REST?

•Simple•Language neutral•Not SOAP

How?

•Technologies

•Wiki

•Talk, talk, talk

Issues

Debug this

Other issues faced

•Over-engineering

•Extreme MVC

•Project coordination

Useful?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/herzogbr

•Lucene/Solr

•Voyager service

•Identity service

•Copyright status

•Digital repository

•Library patron

audio delivery

audio delivery

Collection service

Audio website

http://soa.nla.gov.au/vi/collection/db/nla/3603882

http://soa.nla.gov.au/vi/dcmdb/mets/nla-ch-un3603882

MARCXML

MODS

METS PROFILEDigital repository

service

Streaming server

MP3

use in moderation

questions

tingram@nla.gov.au