cite_collections_rails¶ ↑

This is the implementation for the Perseus DL CITE Collections. It includes methods for generating new MODS and MADS files from the XML residing in catalog_pending, relocating those new files to catalog_data, updating the CITE tables with the new record information, and for generating new ATOM feeds from the catalog_data records to be imported into the Perseus Catalog. It also provides a simple web interface and RESTful API to access data in the CITE tables.

API¶ ↑

Calls to the API can produce XML or JSON replies. XML is the default format, append ‘.json’ to any call to get back that format.

The base URI is:

http://catalog.perseus.org/cite-collections/api/[collection]

Our CITE collections are Authors, Textgroups, Works, and Versions.

The API requests available are:

/[collection]                     - Provides the full collection
/[collection]/[cite_urn]          - Returns a single record for the given CITE URN
/[collection]/count               - Number of objects in a collection
/[collection]/first               - First object in a collection
/[collection]/last                - Last object in a collection
/[collection]/[cite_urn]/previous - Object before the given URN
/[collection]/[cite_urn]/next     - Object after the given URN
/[collection]/[cite_urn]/prevnext - Objects before and after the given URN
/[collection]/search?[key]=[value]- Search on any row in the table by column names

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