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OhioLINK-OCLC Collection and Circulation Analysis Project

You may or may not be aware of a joint project between OhioLINK and OCLC Research to analyze usage patterns of library materials. The primary goal is to better understand the usage patterns of books in academic libraries: what books are (or are not) being used, how many copies are needed, the ideal size of subject collections, etc. The project combines OhioLINK circulation data and WorldCat bibliographic and holdings data together to perform this analysis.

Submitted by librarywebchic on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 8:41am
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Upcoming webinar on WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway

In celebration of Open Access Week [October 24-30, 2011], OCLC is hosting a webinar on the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway. This tool provides libraries with a way to share the metadata of their unique digital content to OCLC’s WorldCat; making your collections are more visible and discoverable by end users who search WorldCat.org, WorldCat Local and WorldCat Local "quick start", as well as Google, Yahoo! and other popular Web sites. User are able to easily click through to local library systems to access the digital item and view it immediately on their screen.

Submitted by librarywebchic on Sun, 10/23/2011 - 1:24pm
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Introduction to mobile apps Webinar

Here's a Webinar sponsored by MLNC that came across our desks recently. It caught our eye because we're all about apps right now with platform activities ramping up. While this particular Webinar sounds like it might be helpful to send your less-technically-inclined colleagues to, you could also plan to attend yourself, just to see what apps someone else thinks are the best.

Submitted by alicesneary on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 3:15pm
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Enhance the Security of your EZproxy Server: come to the Virtual User Group meeting

Since many of you also manage the EZproxy server at your institution, I wanted to make sure you'd heard: the first ever EZproxy Virtual Users Group meeting is scheduled for this Thursday, October 20, 2011 from 2:00 – 3:00 Eastern Daylight Savings Time (USA).

During this first session, EZproxy Senior Product Manager Don Hamparian will give a presentation and lead a conversation on How You Can Enhance the Security of your EZproxy Server.

Submitted by alicesneary on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 4:38pm
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Register for the Oct. 24 event: Cooperation and the Cloud: Web Scale, Workflows and Data

If you're planning to go to Access (and who wouldn't want to hang out in awesome Vancouver, BC for a few days and soak up some tech?)--then plan to stay over on Sunday so you can come to the daylong program on Monday, October 24 for Cooperation and the Cloud: Web Scale, Workflows and Data.

Submitted by alicesneary on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 4:09pm
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Planned downtime for WorldCat Search API, WorldCat Basic API and WorldCat Registry API on September 18 for an Oracle upgrade

On Sunday, September 18 there will be a scheduled service downtime for the following 3 services from 1:00a.m. until at least 8:00 a.m. Eastern time. This temporary service interruption is required so we can upgrade software that supports them:

  • WorldCat Basic API
  • WorldCat Search API
  • WorldCat Registry API

  If you have any questions about these events, please contact OCLC Support at 1-800-848-5800 (toll-free, U.S.) or +1-614-793-8682.

Submitted by alicesneary on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:22pm
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Register now for the WorldCat Mashathon Frankfurt

WorldCat Mashathon Frankfurt

You've been waiting for it--and wondering, when will they announce it? WHEN is the next Mashathon?! Happy to say, mark your calendars now and get ready for Germany!

Submitted by alicesneary on Wed, 08/24/2011 - 3:03pm
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Building the New York Times Bestsellers application

The last prototype application I built was the New York Times Bestseller application. This application is a riff on one of the potential Platform applications demonstrated at last year's ALA. The "Bestseller App 2.0" allows a library to select a given New York Times Bestseller list and see which items from that list the library doesn't currently own. Then a user can select which of these items should be purchased and how many copies should be purchased. An Amazon cart with these items is then created as is a WMS order.

Submitted by librarywebchic on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 2:32pm
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OCLC Web Services Chapter in LITA Cloud Computing Guide

Submitted by librarywebchic on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 2:27pm
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Building the Amazon Order Application

The first application that I built off of the prototype WMS Acquisiton web service was the Amazon Order application. As I've explained in my basic overview of the Platform prototype application, the purpose of the Amazon application was to take an existing WMS order and send that order to Amazon, creating a shopping cart.

The first thing that the application does is generate a form screen which allows the user to input and existing WMS Acquisitions Purchase Order number.

Submitted by librarywebchic on Wed, 08/17/2011 - 11:07am
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