[VuFind-Tech] Question about VuFind integration of OverDrive API delivering metadata about e-books

[Pierfranco M. <pie...@gm...>]

Dear all,

I am investigaint the ability and effectiveness of VuFind integration of
metadata of e-books though the OverDrive API released last July and I have
2 questions about the results which have been obtained by libraries using
VuFind:

1) is the metadata integration through API a kind of "on the fly" process,
which does not result in a permanent integration, but is only displayed
after a user query and then it is limited to the records which match the
query?
Or it is based on a sort of batch process which enables integration of all
metadata from a OverDrive collection and is followed by a batch reindexing
process which then makes it possible to integrate these metadata in a
single results list?

2) are the metadata from the OverDrive API visible both as a brief record
view in the results list and as a detailed record?

Could anybody please give me an example of a record about an e-book which
has been integrated through the OverDrive API and the related URL which I
could check in the online VuFind catalog?

Thank you very much in advance for the information you will be able to give
me.

Best wishes

Pierfranco Minsenti