Contents
Query Specification
CiNii Books OpenSearch query for Authors is as follows.
https://ci.nii.ac.jp/books/opensearch/author?(parameter=value)& (parameter=value)&…&(parameter=value)
Each parameter that comprises the query is as follows. Parameters other than this table is disregarded.
| No. | Item Name | Parameter Name | Availability of Boolean expression | Remarks | |
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| 1 | Author Name | name | Possible(AND) | Partial match or exact match of Author Name ID. Required | |
| 2 | Output format | format | Impossible | atom:ATOM format (default), rss: RSS format, json: JSON-LD format, html:HTML format | |
| 3 | Sort Order | sortorder | Impossible | 1: Sorts by relevance in descending order(default), 2: Sorts by name in ascending order of character code (A to Z), 3: Sorts by name in descending order of character code (Z to A), 4: Sorts by number of books with the lowest number at the top, 5: Sorts by number of books with the highest number at the top | |
| 4 | Search Page Number | p | Impossible | The first page is 1. | |
| 5 | Number of outcome per one page | count | Impossible | Default is 20 | |
| 6 | Application ID | appid | Impossible | Required | |
- In the fields which accept a Boolean expression, you can specify relation by AND, OR, NOT, operator (in capital letters) and parenthesis ("(", ")").
- Between AND, OR, NOT and words, blank is required. When you put words without operator, a default relation (operator written with parenthesis in the table) is used.
Response Specification
You can choose the response format with query from RSS, Atom, JSON-LD and HTML.
"Access-Control-Allow-Origin" is required on http header for response, and it is available to use asynchronous communication between cross domains.
RSS1.0 Response Format Specification
| No. | Tag name | Required | Content | Remarks | |||||
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| First level | Second level | Third level | Fourth level | Fifth level | Attribute | ||||
| 1 | xml | Required | Declare as XML document | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> | |||||
| 2 | rdf:RDF | Required | Document route element | Language code of the response will appear at xml:lang attribute. Other attributes are as follows. | |||||
| <rdf:RDF | |||||||||
| xmlns | xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" | ||||||||
| xmlns:rdf | xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" | ||||||||
| xmlns:rdfs | xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" | ||||||||
| xmlns:dc | xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" | ||||||||
| xmlns:opensearch | xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" | ||||||||
| xml:lang | xml:lang=”ja”> | ||||||||
| 3 | channel | rdf:about | Required | Requested URI | This is a search request URI. URL-encorded query is output with "variable identifier=value" format. Connects with "&" ,and "appid" will be removed from parameter. | ||||
| 4 | title | Required | Title | Concatenation with query to "CiNii Books Author -" . Example: <title>CiNii Books Author - 大向</title> |
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| 5 | description | Required | Title | Same as the above | |||||
| 6 | link | Required | Requested URI | This is a search request URI. URL-encorded query is output with "variable identifier=value" format. Connects with "&", and "appid" will be removed from parameter. | |||||
| 7 | dc:date | Required | Date when search was executed | W3CDTF format | |||||
| 8 | opensearch:totalResults | Required | Total search results | ||||||
| 9 | opensearch:startIndex | Required | Start number | Indicates from which record number among the search results the data is being described. | |||||
| 10 | opensearch:itemsPerPage | Required | Results per page | Indicates how many search results are included in the response. | |||||
| 11 | items | Required | |||||||
| 12 | rdf:Seq | Required | |||||||
| 13 | rdf:li | rdf:resource | Required | URI of Bibliography Details Page | Indicates how many search results are included in the response. Repeated at most until the number of opensearch:itemsPerPage. | ||||
| 14 | item | rdf:about | Required | Author information | Repeated at most until the number of opensearch:itemsPerPage. The permalink is described in rdf:about. <item rdf:about="http://ci.nii.ac.jp/author/XX12345678"> |
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| 15 | title | Required | Author name | ||||||
| 16 | link | Required | URI of Author Details Page | Indicates the permalink in Author details page. <link>http://ci.nii.ac.jp/author/XX12345678</link> |
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| 17 | rdfs:seeAlso | rdf:resource | Required | URI of Author RDF | Indicates the URI of Author RDF (except parameter of appid) <rdfs:seeAlso rdf:resource="http://ci.nii.ac.jp/author/XX12345678.rdf" /> |
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| 18 | description | Author name transcription | |||||||
| 19 | dc:date | Required | Date of update | Date when the search was executed. | |||||
Atom1.0 Response Format Specification
| No. | Tag name | Required | Content | Remarks | ||||
| First level | Second level | Third level | Fourth level | Attribute | ||||
| 1 | xml | Required | Declare as XML document | <?xml version="1.0"encoding="UTF-8" ?> | ||||
| 2 | feed | Required | Document route element | Language code of the response will appear at xml:lang attribute. Other attributes are as follows. | ||||
| <feed | ||||||||
| xmlns | xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" | |||||||
| xmlns:opensearch | xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" | |||||||
| xml:lang | xml:lang=”ja”> | |||||||
| 3 | title | Required | Feed title | Concatenation with query to "CiNii Books Author-". 例： <title>CiNii Books Author - 大向</title>< |
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| 4 | link | href | Required | Query URL | URL of Equivalent search with HTML. URL-encorded query is output with "variable identifier=value" format. Connects with "&" and "appid" will be removed from parameter. | |||
| 5 | link | rel | Required | Relation with reference at linked page | Fixed: "self" | |||
| 6 | type | Required | MIME type of reference at linked page | Fixed: "application/atom+xml" | ||||
| 7 | href | Required | Requested URI | This is a search request URI. URL-encorded query is output with "variable identifier=value" format. Connects with "&" and "appid" will be removed from parameter. | ||||
| 8 | id | Required | Requested URI | Same as the link element. | ||||
| 9 | updated | Required | Date when search was executed | W3CDTF format | ||||
| 10 | opensearch:totalResults | Required | Total search results | |||||
| 11 | opensearch:startIndex | Required | Start number | Indicates from which record number among the search results the data is being described. | ||||
| 12 | opensearch:itemsPerPage | Required | Results per page | Indicates how many search results are included in the response. | ||||
| 13 | entry | Container that stores information on author search results. | Repeated at most until the number of opensearch:itemsPerPage. | |||||
| 14 | title | Required | Author name | |||||
| 15 | link | href | Required | URI of Author Details Page | Indicates the permalink in Author details page. <link href="http://ci.nii.ac.jp/author/XX12345678"/> |
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| 16 | link | rel | Required | Relation with reference at linked page | Fixed: "alternate" | |||
| 17 | type | Required | MIME type of reference at linked page | Fixed: "application/rdf+xml" | ||||
| 18 | href | Required | URI of Author RDF | Indicates the URI of Author RDF (except parameter of appid) href="http://ci.nii.ac.jp/author/XX12345678.rdf" |
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| 19 | id | Required | URI of Author Details Page | Indicates the permalink in Author details page. <id>http://ci.nii.ac.jp/author/XX12345678</id> |
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| 20 | content | Author name transcription | Example: <content type="text">オオムカイ, イッキ</content> |
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| 21 | type | Fixed: "text" | ||||||
| 22 | updated | Required | Date of update | Date when search performed | ||||
JSON-LD Response Format Specification
| No. | Tag Name | Type | Required | Contents | Remarks | ||||
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| First level | Second level | Third level | Fourth level | Fifth level | |||||
| 1 | @context | Object | Required | Document route element | "@context": { "dc": "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/", "rdf": "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#", "opensearch": "http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/", "rdfs": "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#", "@vocab": "http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" }, |
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| 2 | @vocab | Required | http://purl.org/rss/1.0/ | ||||||
| 3 | dc | Required | http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/ | ||||||
| 4 | rdf | Required | http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# | ||||||
| 5 | opensearch | Required | http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/ | ||||||
| 6 | rdfs | Required | http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema# | ||||||
| 7 | @id | Required | Requested URI | This is a search request URI. URL-encorded query is output with "variable identifier=value" format. "appid" will be removed from parameter. | |||||
| 8 | @graph | Array | Required | Element count of array is 1 | |||||
| 9 | @id | Required | Requested URI | This is a search request URI. URL-encorded query is output with "variable identifier=value" format. "appid" will be removed from parameter. | |||||
| 10 | @type | Required | Fixed: "channel" | ||||||
| 11 | title | Required | Title | Concatenation with query to "CiNii Books Author" Example: "title":"CiNii Books Author - 大向", |
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| 12 | description | Required | Title | Same as the above | |||||
| 13 | link | Object | Required | ||||||
| 14 | @id | Required | Requested URI | This is a search request URI. URL-encorded query is output with "variable identifier=value" format. "appid" will be removed from parameter. | |||||
| 15 | dc:date | Required | Date when search was executed | W3CDTF format | |||||
| 16 | opensearch:totalResults | Required | Total search results | ||||||
| 17 | opensearch:startIndex | Required | Start number | Indicates from which record number among the search results the data is being described. | |||||
| 18 | opensearch:itemsPerPage | Required | Results per page | Indicates how many search results are included in the response. | |||||
| 19 | items | Array | |||||||
| 20 | @id | Required | URI of Author Details Page | Indicates the permalink in Author Details Page | |||||
| 21 | @type | Required | Fixed: "item" | ||||||
| 22 | title | Required | Author name | ||||||
| 23 | link | Object | Required | ||||||
| 24 | @id | Required | URI of Author Details Page | Indicates the permalink in Author Details Page. "link": {"@id":"http://ci.nii.ac.jp/author/XX12345678"}, |
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| 25 | rdfs:seeAlso | Object | Required | ||||||
| 26 | @id | Required | URI of Author JSON-LD | Indicate the URI of Author JSON-LD (except parameter of appid) "rdfs:seeAlso":{"@id":"http://ci.nii.ac.jp/author/XX12345678.json"}, |
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| 27 | description | Author name transcription | |||||||
| 28 | dc:date | Required | Date of update | Date when search performed | |||||
Revision History
You can check revision history of CiNii Articles JSON-LD API for Articles later April, 2013.
March 13, 2015
JSON-LD response format has been partly changed. The details are as follows;
- Type of "items" tag has changed from "Object" to "Array".
- "rdf:Seq" and "rdf:li" tags have not been used.
- CiNii Web APIs by JSON-LD has become official version.
October 11, 2013
- JSON-LD Format (json) has added to output format for Query Specification.
- JSON-LD (Beta version) has added to Response Format Specification.
- It has been available to use asynchronous communication between cross domains.