BookNet Canada Project Manager Tim Middleton recaps the highlights from 2023 for the BNC BiblioShare project, including the addition of two new team members, the exciting APIs the team is working on, usage stats, and more.
Link to presentation recording and transcript: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/new-from-booknet-canada-for-2024-bnc-biblioshare/
Presented by BookNet Canada on April 22, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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Supply Chain: The Series!
Critics have hailed this show as even more
realistic and gritty than The Wire!
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“Having the right people in the org chart that lets them
get a lot of work done without too much bureaucracy”
Ryan Petersen CEO flexport
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www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2023/12/7/meet-shuvanjan www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2023/12/01/welcome-stephanie
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Author Title Search
• JSON format
• The Title and Author flags act as keywords
• You get pretty specific results by combining author name with title keyword
• The payload default order is by pubdate
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Author Title Search
Sample query
{
"ean": 9781956072112,
"PublicationDate": "2023-08-08",
"Format": "Hardback",
"Title": "The Boldly Inclusive Leader",
"Availability": "Available",
"Contributor": "Minette Norman"
},
{
"ean": 9781774710760,
"PublicationDate": "2022-06-20",
"Format": "Paperback / softback",
"Title": "Sketches of Historic Truro",
"Availability": "Available",
"Contributor": "Minette Murphy"
},
{
"ean": 9781788927086,
"PublicationDate": "2022-02-28",
"Format": "Hardback",
"Title": "Person to Person Peacebuilding, Intercultural Communication and English Language Teaching",
"Availability": "Unavailable",
"Contributor": "Amy Jo Minett"
},
{
"ean": 9781788927079,
"PublicationDate": "2022-02-28",
"Format": "Paperback / softback",
"Title": "Person to Person Peacebuilding, Intercultural Communication and English Language Teaching",
"Availability": "Unavailable",
"Contributor": "Amy Jo Minett"
},
https://biblioshare.ca/
bncservices/BNCServices.asmx/SearchTitlesAndAuthors?
Token=###################&Title=&Author=Minett
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Accessibility API
To provide a list of ISBNs that have accessibility features.
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{
"ean": 9781773062556,
"Title": "When I Listen to Silence",
"Publisher": "Groundwood Books"
"PublicationDate": "2022-04-01"
“Accessibility”: “Table of contents navigation ,
Short alternative descriptions,
Print-equivalent page numbering,
Language tagging provided,
Publisher contact for further accessibility information: customerservice@houseofanansi.com”
}
Example:
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2021
• Average New Records/day: 1,249
• Average Updated: 134,901
2020
• Average New Records/day: 1,586
• Average Updated: 143,974
2019
• Average New Records/day: 2,942
• Average Updated: 140,612
2018
• Average New Records/day: 3,014
• Average Updated: 103,232
2022
• Average New Records/day: 2,047
• Average Updated: 145,977
2023
• Average New Records/day: 2,030
• Average Updated: 133,068
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2021
• Average New Records/day: 1,249
• Average Updated: 7,757
2020
• Average New Records/day : 1251
• Average Updated : 9532
2019
• Average New Records/day : 274
• Average Updated : 8000
2018
• Average New Records/day : 408
• Average Updated : 9290
2022
• Average New Records/day: 5,036
• Average Updated: 16,257
2023
• Average New Records/day: 3,003
• Average Updated: 4,335