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Keep up to date with the latest developments, technical briefs on the platform and services, and general goings on here at the Developer Network.

  • Systems Maintenance on Dec 13

    Web services that require user level authentication will be down for systems maintenance to the Identity Management system (IDM) for 30 minutes beginning at 3am on Dec 13th. This down time will affect OCLC’s worldwide data centers as follows:

  • All Services Unavailable 3 January 2015 for Technology Upgrade

    On Saturday, 3 January 2015, OCLC has scheduled a technology upgrade to support system performance and reliability. During this upgrade, all OCLC services will be unavailable on 3 January 2015, from 12:01 am to 3:00 pm, U.S. Eastern Standard Time (ap...

  • Code and Camaraderie

    Show-and-tell time for the 11 developers who attended Developer House this week.  Look for a video of the presentations.  These are worth watching!  The tea...

  • Developer House Gets Inside View of Hot Projects at OCLC

    We spent most of today working on our projects, so thought we'd share more about the presentations we had yesterday, including OCLC's Linked Data strategy and a series of "lightning" talks by OCLC staff responsible for some of our current i...

  • Today at Developer House: Data strategy, lightning talks, oh my!

    Today’s developer house activities were a real adventure. The morning was filled with an overview of OCLC’s data strategy and plans for exposing entities. The later half of the morning saw a bevy of lightning talks ranging from user experience to Had...

  • Four Projects Started at Developer House

    Developer House is underway!  We have four teams working on four different projects.  Each of us have the same goal: We will have fun developing these projects and we will have working code to demonstrate on Friday morning.

  • Opening Up Developer House

    We're excited to kick off our second Developer House here at the OCLC Developer Network by welcoming 12 library technologists for a week of brainstorming, learning and coding: Bilal Khalid, Bill Jones, Candace Lebel, Emily Flynn, Francis Kayiwa, Jani...

  • Learning Linked Data: SPARQL

    One thing you realize pretty quickly is that it is very hard to work with Linked Data and just confine one’s explorations to a single site or data set. The links inevitably lead you on a pilgrimage from one data set to another and another. In the cas...

  • Now Playing: Finding a Common Language

    If you missed our recent webinar on Finding a Common Language you can now view the full recording.

  • WMS Web Services Install November 23

    The new date for the November WMS Web services install is this Sunday, November 23rd. This install will include changes to two of our WMS APIs.