[Clipart] SOAP interface / API?

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 16:19 -0800, Open Clip Art Library Feedback Form
wrote:
> Name: Jon Bolt
> E-mail: jon at wordescapes.co.uk
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am thinking of developing a GNOME client for a university project
> for Linux which will interface to the openclipart.org site so that
> users can search and preview the clipart from their desktop, then
> download the images to use as they will. This is basically to improve
> the useability of looking for clipart by allowing the user to stay
> within their desktop environment.
> 
> I was wondering if there is an API or some kind of SOAP interface
> where the desktop application can search and retrieve images from the
> openclipart.org servers. 
> 
> This will be a completly open source application. If there is an API
> available for openclipart, please could you point me in the direction
> of any avaialble documention
> 
> Thanks 
> Jon
> 
Hi Jon, there is one effort to do this called the clipart browser. I'm
cc'ing the author of that application, Greg Steffensen.

Also, our engine, ccHost, has an api for searching content:

http://ccmixter.org/media/viewfile/pool_api_doc.xml

Anyway, this sounds fun, but hopefully you can build off of already
existing code to save time and help the project.

Also, there is more documentation here:

http://openclipart.org/wiki/Clip_Art_Browser

Hopefully, if you do any coding on something new, please do it in C/C++
so we can make it portable and fast :)


Good luck and hop onto our mailing list to discuss it more!

Jon


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