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TABLE OF CONTENTS The VITA Search API How Does It Work?. 2 Building The Queries 2 1. Base Path 2 Output Format Options 2 2. Result Options 2 3. Additional Query Modifiers 3 ipl 4 Example Searches With Modifiers 4 |THE VITA SEARCH API The VITA Search API assumes you do not want to ingest the entire VITA collection (and update it regularly) into your library catalogue, but simply query VITA every time a user is looking up something in your catalogue, and return items if your VITA collection contains something related. HOW DOES IT WORK? The Queries that follow are what the person who manages your library's catalogue app needs. They pass on a user’s query in the format needed to get a XML response back from VITA. The response package output formats offer a wide choice for whichever format is best suited to include the VITA response into the onscreen view of your catalogue responses in real time. BUILDING THE QUERIES BASE PATH Sample VITA Base Path: https://vitacollections.ca/[yourorgsite] e.g. https://images.ourontario.ca/ajax or https://news.ourontario.ca/haltonnews OUTPUT FORMAT OPTIONS RESULT OPTIONS e results (VITA default)