The Patrons Account Information API (PAIA) is a HTTP based programming interface to access library patron information, such as loans, reservations, and fees. See http://gbv.github.com/paia/paia.html for an overview.

This git repository, hosted at http://github.com/gbv/paia, contains a preliminary specification of PAIA. The master file is paia.md. The specification is written in Pandoc’s Markdown. The specification is managed with makespec to create a nice looking HTML version and the website.

How to contribute to the specification

Please use the issue tracker to comment. Given a GitHub account you can also fork this repository, do

git clone git@github.com:YOURACCOUNT/paia.git
cd paia
git submodule update --init

# modify paia.md

make

# check whether paia.html looks fine

git add paia.md
git commit -m "your comment"
git push origin master

and request a pull of your modification.