niche · 1.4

Library Catalog

Score 17.1 / 100 2 providers +14 via APIs 18 APIs Search apis.io →
Variants seen in the corpus: Library Cataloglibrary-catalog

Providers using this tag (2)

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Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 1 Limited public surface area

APIs with this tag (18)

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Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
University of Bristol Library Discovery (OCLC WorldCat Discovery)TENANT RELATIONSHIP, NOT A BRISTOL CONTRACT. Bristol's library discovery layer is an OCLC WorldCat Discover...38.3LSE Library Search (Ex Libris Primo VE / Alma)LSE library discovery runs on Ex Libris Primo VE at librarysearch.lse.ac.uk, which CNAMEs to lse.primo.exli...35.8Cornell University Library Catalog Search APIJSON search over Cornell University Library's catalog. The catalog is the library's own Blacklight deployme...35.7BruKnow Library Discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenant)Brown University Library's discovery layer. search.library.brown.edu redirects to bruknow.library.brown.edu...34.0Library Sierra API (Innovative Interfaces)The library management system's Sierra REST API, live on the University of Glasgow Library's own catalogue ...32.1WorldCat Discovery (OCLC tenancy)The University of Glasgow Library's discovery layer, operated for the university by OCLC on a Glasgow-scope...32.1University of Rochester Library Discovery — Ex Libris Primo VE tenancyRiver Campus Libraries discovery runs on Ex Libris Primo VE under the institution-specific view identifier ...30.2University of Alberta Library Catalogue (Alma Z39.50 + Primo VE)The library's discovery and catalogue layer is Ex Libris. The library publishes its own Z39.50 production s...29.3UNC Libraries Catalog Search API (TRLN Discovery / Blacklight)The UNC University Library catalog answers machine-readable search over its full bibliographic index at /ca...28.2Loughborough University Library Catalogue API (Koha)The REST API of Loughborough University Library's Koha integrated library system, served from the universit...27.5
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented

Companies reaching this through an API (14)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Library Catalog” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Brown University Cornell University London School of Economics and Political Science University of Alberta University of Bristol University of California, Santa Barbara University of Chicago University of Glasgow University of Maryland College Park University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Rochester University of Southern California University of Warwick École Normale Supérieure de Paris

Score breakdown

Frequency
34.5
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
42.4
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Campus Life 5 co-occurrences Digital Collections 6 co-occurrences InCommon 6 co-occurrences IIIF 5 co-occurrences DataCite 7 co-occurrences Identity Federation 16 co-occurrences Shibboleth 14 co-occurrences Research Repository 11 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag17
Provider tag2
Openapi tag1
Openapi op tag3

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