First Time with Google-coop

Google Co-op is a platform which enables you to use your expertise to help other users find information(...). With the Google Subscribed Links API, you can add your services directly into Google search. This can help make those services more accessible, giving your users another entry-point to them when they're making a related search on Google.

Today I tested the services from Google Co-op and created a "Subscribed Link" linking my library on connotea. Once a user registers my Subscribed Link, and a connotea tag is requested on google, a link to my library will be displayed.

Using the Connotea web API I downloaded my bookmarks:

wget -O tags.xml "http://login:password@www.connotea.org/data/tags/user/lindenb?num=10000

and the result was transformed with the following xslt stylesheet:

<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<xsl:stylesheet
        xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'
        xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
        xmlns:connotea="http://www.connotea.org/2005/01/schema#"
        version='1.0'
        >
<xsl:output
        method='xml'
        version="1.0"
        encoding="iso-8859-1"
        indent="yes"/>

<xsl:param name="username">Name</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="user">connotea-user</xsl:param>

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="rdf:RDF">
<Results>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</Results>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="connotea:TagList">
<xsl:for-each select="connotea:item/connotea:Tag">
<xsl:sort select="connotea:postCount"
        data-type="number"
        order="descending"
        />
<!-- just keep the 100 first tags with postCount greater than 10 -->
<xsl:if test="position() &lt;= 100 and connotea:postCount &gt;=10">
<xsl:element name="ResultSpec">
<xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of
select="generate-id()"/></xsl:attribute>
<Query><xsl:value-of select="rdf:value"/></Query>
<Response>
 <Output name="title"><xsl:value-of
select="$username"/>&apos;s Connotea Bookmarks</Output>
 <Output name="more_url">www.connotea.org/user/<xsl:value-of
select="$user"/>/tag/<xsl:value-of
select="rdf:value"/></Output>
 <Output name="text1"><xsl:value-of
select="connotea:postCount"/> bookmarks on www.connotea.org</Output>
</Response>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

xsltproc tags2coop.xsl tags.xml > coop.xml

The coop.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<Results
 xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" 
 xmlns:connotea="http://www.connotea.org/2005/01/schema#">
  <ResultSpec id="id2263072">
    <Query>Bioinformatics</Query>
    <Response>
      <Output name="title">Pierre 's Connotea Bookmarks</Output>
      <Output name="more_url">www.connotea.org/user/lindenb/tag/Bioinformatics</Output>
      <Output name="text1">334 bookmarks on www.connotea.org</Output>
    </Response>
  </ResultSpec>
(...)

The file was uploaded at http://www.urbigene.com/coop/coop.xml and registered from http://www.google.com/coop/manage/subscribedlinks.





No when someone register my file and ask google about, say bioinformatics, a link to my library on connotea will appear on the top of the page:



Would be nice if connotea could automaticaly export this xml file for google co-op. I also requested this on the connotea wiki.

I also played with Annotations but I still don't have a clear idea of what it can be used for...

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