OpenDOAR descriptions added
OpenDOAR the Directory of Open Access Repositories (an Open Access repository directory where each repository has been visited by OpenDOAR staff to check the quality of the information) has recently published a draft API. This allows access to their data via HTTP GET requests which return XML records of repositories.
The repository map mashup site now makes use of the API to enable it to show the prose description of each repository taken from OpenDOAR. This is displayed via a new tab in the information window of each repository.
The API also gives access to the postal address of the institution hosting each repository - hopefully this will come in useful. It could, in theory, be put into a geocoding (address interpolation) system, to get map co-ordinates for more repositories worldwide.