Sunday, March 12, 2006

unAPI proxy: power of URI

There has been a lot of debates the nature of "identifier" in unAPI. To demonstrate the power of URI, I put together an unAPI proxy http://dp9.cs.odu.edu/unapi/js/uproxy.html, which modified Alf's copy/paste example to demonstrate that URI indeed helps. In this demo, the javascript extracts responses from both Opa and Hubmed: multiple views of same resource. It's possible because both servers support info:pmid URI.

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