Upcoming Changes to VIAF API

A series of enhancements will be installed into VIAF on July 19 at 4pm Eastern. These enhancements include:

• Addition of CORS support for all VIAF responses
• Addition of JSON Support to
  • Individual VIAF Authority cluster resources
    • http://viaf.org/viaf/244788149/viaf.json
    • http://viaf.org/viaf/244788149/ and an Accept header of application/json
      
  • SRU Search results for VIAF Authority cluster resources
    • http://viaf.org/viaf/search?query=local.names+all+%22levan%22&httpAccept=application/json
    • http://viaf.org/viaf/search?query=local.names+all+%22levan%22 and an Accept header of application/json
• Addition of JSON-P support to VIAF responses
• Addition of extended cache control of a week for all responses
• Addition of JSON-LD Support for Individual VIAF Authority cluster resources.
  • http://viaf.org/viaf/244788149/viaf.jsonld
  • http://viaf.org/viaf/244788149/ and an Accept header of application/ld+json