WorldCat Boston Mashathon September 23-24 Cambridge MA
OCLC is holding a two-day WorldCat Mashathon on September 23-24, 2010 at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cost is $30.
“Join fellow coders for a two-day WorldCat Mashathon at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center (NERD). Sponsored by the OCLC Developer Network and Brandeis University, the WorldCat Mashathon gives participants the opportunity for two full days of brainstorming and coding mash-ups with local systems and other Web services to take advantage of all that WorldCat, the world’s largest bibliographic database, has to offer. To get an impression of what the event may be like, take a look at pictures from the WorldCat Hackathon in New York and the WorldCat Mashathon in Amsterdam, WorldCat Mashathon in Seattle, VALA Bootcamp OCLC API Mashathon, or WorldCat Mashathon UK.”
* It’s a chance for anyone interested in structured data to get their hands on the WorldCat Search API.
* Participants both inside and outside the library industry are encouraged to participate.
* Gain development access to over 144 million bibliographic records from more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.
* Integrate these resources with many others to create innovative new services.
* Share your creative vision and be a part of the next wave of online library development.
Roy Tennant, Senior Program Officer for OCLC Research will kick off the session. OCLC Developer Network manager Karen Coombs and OCLC Research engineer Bruce Washburn will present, walk participants through building a simple sample application and be available for questions and breakout facilitation. Ideas, outcomes and code from the Mashathon, together with a linked participants list, will be shared during and after the event for others to download and build on.”
For more info:
http://www.oclc.org/developer/events/boston-mashathon
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