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Version 3 of the BHL API Now Available

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Version 3 of the BHL API has been launched.

The development of a new API version was spurred by the recent introduction of full-text search to the BHL web site. In addition to the inclusion of full-text search, the entire API has been examined and updated. New methods have been added, existing methods have been modified, and many methods have been dropped entirely (or incorporated into other methods).

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September 10, 2018byMike Lichtenberg
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Changes Coming to the BHL API on 12 June 2017

The BHL API will be updated on 12 June 2017. The current Contributor element will be replaced with a HoldingInstitution element in the result sets of the following API methods:GetItemMetadataGetItemByIdentifierGetTitleMetadataGetTitleItemsBookSearchNameGetDetailHere is an example of the change:Current API Response:<Contributor>MBLWHOI Library</Contributor><RightsHolder>MBLWHOI Library</RightsHolder>
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June 5, 2017byMichelle Strizever
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Notice: Changes Coming to BHL API Methods on February 27, 2017

Effective February 27, 2017, the API methods GetPartEndNote and GetTitleEndNote will be removed. In addition, the BHL data exports that used the related format have already been removed. The removed BHL API methods and data exports will soon be replaced by methods and exports that use the RIS format, which is supported by a wider range of bibliographic reference managers. Thank you for your patience as we work to implement the RIS-based exports and API methods. If you have any questions, please submit them via our feedback form. You can learn more about our developer tools and APIs here.
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February 24, 2017byGrace Costantino
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Information about Upcoming Changes to BHL API

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The BHL API will be updated on 25 July 2016 to support changes to the BHL site. These changes will accommodate identifying additional Contributors for Items and Parts of items. First are changes to the API that may affect your existing processes. The Contributor and ContributorID elements in the result sets of API methods that return “Part” information will move. ContributorID will be included as a PartIdentifier in the Identifiers list. Contributor will be included in a new Contributors list. These changes are being made to accommodate more than one contributor per part.
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July 12, 2016byJoel Richard
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The Tarantupedia, an online encyclopaedia for the biggest spiders in the world

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Tarantulas are amazing. Not only do they include the largest of all spiders, with some species reaching a legspan the size of a dinner plate, but they are arguably some of the most beautiful too. While famous for giants that inhabit the jungles of South America, some species barely grow larger than your thumb nail. Some species live on trees in damp forests while others live in self-constructed tubular burrows in the ground in some of the most inhospitable deserts. Some have special protective hairs on their bodies which cause extreme itching when they come into contact with the mucous membranes of potential predators, while others produce a hissing sound in self-defense.

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August 13, 2015byDimitri Kambas
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The Life of a Field Biologist and Practical Biodiversity Informatician: Cam Webb

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As part of our regular BHL & Our Users series, Connie Rinaldo (MCZ Librarian and BHL Executive Committee Member) recently caught up with Cam Webb, a Senior Research Scientist at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.  We were very pleased to hear about how he has been exploring BHL and what he discovered.

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June 3, 2014byCarolyn Sheffield
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BHL and EOL team up for NESCent Research Sprint

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In early February, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) hosted the EOL-BHL Research Sprint. NESCent, based in Durham, NC, is a non-profit science center supporting research in the evolutionary sciences. NESCent emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to research, and so the idea behind the Sprint was to put together teams of programmers and life scientists to expose each other to questions and ways of thinking that they might not necessarily consider in their normal work.

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March 27, 2014byCarolyn Sheffield

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