iBase REST server for federated searching - Technical
This page is for the information of technical departments who wish to use a federated search engine to interrogate a database supplied by iBase Media Services that has an iBase REST server associated with it.
Non-technical outline and live example of federated searching via an iBase REST server.
Note: iBase Media Services will carry out the deployment and configuration of an iBase REST server at the database owner's request.
iBase REST Server
The iBase REST (REpresentational State Transfer) server allows third party applications, such as web sites, to query an iBase repository via an HTTP request and retrieve assets and metadata in the form of a structured XML document.
The iBase data schema is highly configurable, and provides for such things as the creation and management of a structured subject / category / keyword hierarchy, item relationships and also enables sets of data fields to be created that are specific to each of any number of separate item types within a single database. The iBase REST server fully supports all aspects of the iBase data schema, making it ideal for exporting assets in a distributed environment.
This downloadable PDF details the required format of the URL that is passed to the REST server and the structure of the XML document containing the search results.
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