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Mark A. Matienzo

Brooklyn, NY - http://matienzo.org/

- The following changes implement the changes to the WorldCat Search APIs
that were made on December 7, 2008.
- THIS MAY BREAK YOUR CODE: worldcat.request.search.HoldingsRequest has been
renamed worldcat.request.search.LibrariesRequest. This class also allows you
to retrieve a list of nearby libraries.
- Any request that will return citations now supports the cformat parameter set
to "all."

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v0.1.4 Sat Nov 8 10:13:50 EST 2008
- Bug fix where exceptions weren't imported into worldcat.request.search and
worldcat.request.xid
- Added docstrings to example code

v0.1.3 Fri Nov 7 16:41:15 EST 2008
- Fixed bug in worldcat.request.search.CitationRequest
- added examples directory and get related works example code

v0.1.2 Fri Nov 7 09:06:20 EST 2008
- Switched to dual licensing under GPL and BSD for OCLC Hackathon (thanks to
Thomas Dukleth for bringing this to my attention).

Added LCCN support in worldcat.request.xid and other updates based upon http://worldcat.org/devnet/blog/2008/11/lccn_support_and_other_improve.h...

- Added iterators to SRURequest and OpenSearchRequest in worldcat.request.search.
These need testing, so please submit any feedback.

- Correcting, adding, and cleaning up docstrings

- Initial public release of djabberdjaw.

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- Fix in worldcat.util.extract.pymarc_extract where the XML handlers grew uncontrollably. Not entirely efficient, but this is still pre-pre-alpha code. :)

- Added worldcat.util.extract, which assists in extracting records from SRU
requests. This module adds a dependency on Pymarc >= 1.2 because of
worldcat.util.extract.pymarc_extract(). In addition, we may want to switch
its use of StringIO to use an InputSource object instead.

- Added a Changes file :)

This is a list of day trips - either just ideas or ones I've already done.

Meet at Grand Central Market
One Day Getaway to Beacon/Dia
Beacon: Zora Dora's Paletarias, 203 Main St
Cold Spring: maybe Le Bouchon
Hastings on Hudson: Antoinette's Patisserie, 417 Warburton Ave - south on Southside Ave, left on Washington, right on Warburton

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SELECT DISTINCT item.bib#
FROM item, bib WHERE bib.bib# = item.item#
AND item.collection NOT IN ('oh', 'icos', 'mi')
AND item.location = 'icos'
AND (bib.text LIKE '%audio%' OR bib.text LIKE '%video%'
OR bib.text LIKE '%cassette%' OR bib.text LIKE '%tape%'
OR bib.text LIKE '%recording%' OR bib.text LIKE '%film%')

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Mark A. Matienzo is an Applications Developer in the Digital Experience Group of the New York Public Library.

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I'm investigating the use of HTTP interfaces to do lightweight, on-the-fly metadata transformation from a variety of sources. Currently, my emphasis is grabbing known records from Z39.50 and transforming them for consumption by a variety of client applications.

worldcat is a Python module for interacting with OCLC's WorldCat APIs, including the WorldCat Search API and the xID APIs (xISBN, xISSN, and xOCLCNUM).

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