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Description: Rudimentary hook to the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) API plus some screen scraping for the OCR bits.
Homepage: http://hymao.org
Clone URL: git://github.com/mjy/rubyBHL.git
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file .gitignore Mon Oct 19 14:56:04 -0700 2009 initial import [mjy]
file README.rdoc Mon Oct 19 20:18:04 -0700 2009 Readme update, gem is on gemcutter [mjy]
file Rakefile Mon Oct 19 14:56:04 -0700 2009 initial import [mjy]
file init.rb Mon Oct 19 14:56:04 -0700 2009 initial import [mjy]
directory lib/ Mon Oct 19 19:09:36 -0700 2009 OCR text example [mjy]
file rubyBHL.gemspec Mon Oct 19 15:09:17 -0700 2009 adding gemspec [mjy]
directory test/ Mon Oct 19 19:09:36 -0700 2009 OCR text example [mjy]
README.rdoc

RubyBHL

A very simple Ruby hook to the BHL API at www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurlhelp.aspx.

Install

Source is on github, gem is on gemcutter. 

  gem install rubyBHL

If you don’t alread have it you also need the json gem (code.google.com/p/rubyjson/) 

 gem install json.

Usage

See tests. 

  @bhl = RubyBHL::Rbhl.new(:params => {:title => "Manual of North American Diptera"})

:params include those listed under the OpenURL 0.1 column on the BHL API page.

Todo

Lots.