[Web4lib] WorldCat Mashathon Seattle registration now open

[Sneary,Alice]

Register now for the WorldCat Mashathon Seattle

 

Join fellow developers for the next two-day WorldCat Mashathon
<http://worldcat.org/devnet/wiki/2009WAMashathon> . Sponsored by the
OCLC Developer Network <http://worldcat.org/devnet/index.php/Main_Page>
and the University of Washington libraries
<http://www.lib.washington.edu/> , this WorldCat Mashathon will be held
Thursday and Friday, November 5-6 at Odegaard Undergraduate Library at
the University of Washington, Seattle.

 

The Seattle Mashathon will follow the same format as previous events in
Amsterdam
<http://worldcat.org/devnet/blog/2009/05/worldcat_mashathon_a_huge_succ.
html>  and New York
<http://infomotions.com/blog/2008/11/worldcat-hackathon/> . Participants
will spend the two days brainstorming and coding mash-ups with local
systems and other Web services to take advantage of all that WorldCat
<http://www.worldcat.org/> , the world's largest and most comprehensive
bibliographic database, has to offer. Developers from the library
community and beyond are encouraged to attend.

 

WorldCat includes materials from libraries around the world, including
images, video games, movies, articles, books, maps and more.

 

Why attend the WorldCat Mashathon?

*	Brainstorm potential apps for the WorldCat Search API
<http://worldcat.org/devnet/wiki/SearchAPIDetails> , our bibliographic
grouping services and other OCLC Web services. 
*	Get a preview of the new WorldCat Basic API
<http://worldcat.org/devnet/wiki/BasicAPIDetails> . 
*	Gain development access to 1.4 billion items from more than
10,000 libraries worldwide. 
*	Integrate these resources with many others
<http://techessence.info/apis>  to create innovative new services. 
*	Meet fellow developers across the information industry. 
*	Share your creative vision and be a part of the next wave of
online library development. 

Roy Tennant <http://roytennant.com/speaker.html>  of OCLC Research and
longtime Code4Lib <http://code4lib.org/>  participant will kick off the
session. OCLC staff will also be available for questions and breakout
facilitation. Ideas, outcomes and code from the Mashathon, together with
a participants list, will be shared during and after the event for
others to download and build on.

Learn more and register now
<http://worldcat.org/devnet/wiki/2009WAMashathon>  for the Mashathon.