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With New Growth comes New Opportunities

You all know that I've been hard at work here at OCLC--pretty much since the day I arrived--to create the Developer Network site and make it useful, functional and helpful for you, the library development community. And helpful for anyone else who ventures over, like partners or non-technical librarians, who might need some information about APIs, widgets or what-have-you.

Submitted by librarywebchic on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 11:15am
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TAI CHI Webinar tomorrow on SEO for Institutional Repositories

Our OCLC Research colleagues host an amazing set of Webinars, called TAI CHI which has nothing to do with martial arts or yoga. Other than the fact that the webinars almost always stretch my brain in new directions and remind me how awesome it is to have such a thoughtful, lively community of thinkers around us. The next one coming up is tomorrow, check it out:

Submitted by alicesneary on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 12:02pm
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Downloadable version of FAST now available

Whoop whoop! In case you missed the announcement yesterday, OCLC Research has now made a downloadable version of FAST available, in addition to the Linked Open Data Service. No charge.

What is FAST, you ask?

Submitted by alicesneary on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 2:10pm
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New WorldCat.org traffic partner, WriteCite

A big welcome to our first online citation partner from Australia: WriteCite!

From the official announcement:

Submitted by alicesneary on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 5:07pm
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Six new Web services available through the OCLC WorldShare Platform

You've probably heard about the OCLC WorldShare Platform, officially launched in December—the framework, architecture and infrastructure that Karen described in previous posts. Now I am pleased to say, there are SIX (6) new Web services available through the Platform for you to experiment and innovate with, in this new environment.

Submitted by alicesneary on Thu, 02/02/2012 - 12:14pm
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Introduction to OpenSocial Webinar recording now available

If you missed yesterday's Webinar with an Introduction to OpenSocial, you're in luck.

You'll find the recording of the session along with the presentation deck as PDFs on the event page.

Submitted by alicesneary on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 11:30am
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Introduction to OpenSocial Webinar next week

Now that we're all contemplating a new year, take some time to brush up on one of the technologies that powers the WorldShare Platform--OpenSocial. Used by many online sites such as Google, Drupal, eBay and others, now OpenSocial has found its way to libraries. SciVerse Developer Network also uses OpenSocial, and this Webinar will introduce you to the fundamentals.

Submitted by alicesneary on Tue, 12/27/2011 - 2:16pm
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New WorldCat.org traffic partner, Designers and Books

Welcome to the latest WorldCat.org traffic partner, Designers and Books. Their site is beautiful and simple in a way that only a site with designers in mind can be. It's fun to nose around and see what books famous designers have drawn influence from. And to think perhaps you can read the same thing! On the fancy new ereader you might have gotten over the holidays! (Full caveat: yes, I too have suffered from the delusion that if only I read everything Le Corbustier did, I would be as brilliant as he was. Right?)

Submitted by alicesneary on Tue, 12/27/2011 - 1:42pm
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EZproxy version 5.5 released

While EZproxy announcements aren't part of the Developer Network strictly speaking, we know lots of us wear multiple hats. Including anything related to systems/technical/authentication anything at your library. So with that spirit, we usually like to let you know when a new enhancement to EZproxy comes out. And here we go--version 5.5 is ready for download.

Submitted by alicesneary on Thu, 12/01/2011 - 10:39am
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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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