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Platform-related sessions at ALA Annual 2012

If you or one of your fellow staff members is heading to Anaheim later this week, be sure to have them sign up for the following platform-related session at ALA Annual 2012:

  • Americas Regional Council and OCLC Symposium
  • OCLC WorldShare Platform: App-sharing at Webscale

Americas Regional Council and OCLC Symposium. Friday, June 22, 11:00am to 03:00pm PT at the Anaheim Marriott, Grand Salon A - E

Submitted by alicesneary on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 4:53pm
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New API Available: Article Exchange

A shiny new Web service: Article Exchange API. This is a write web service for cloud-based document delivery. It's basically like a secure Dropbox for interlibrary loan materials. The Article Exchange API gives you developer level access to the Article Exchange document-sharing site.

Submitted by alicesneary on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 12:28pm
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Innovation in Libraries 2012 event: Call for Proposals

Do you love exploring new ideas? Always secretly wished you knew more about how to create an app? Wonder what the next wave of library innovation might be?

Submitted by aschurr on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 5:01pm
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May 2012 enhancements complete for OCLC Web services

All the documentation and sample code has been updated as part of the May 20 release. All systems are go. Let us know if you're finding new quirks with the enhancements to any of the services.

Submitted by alicesneary on Fri, 06/01/2012 - 2:09pm
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Welcome Andrea, our new community manager

Not too long ago, Karen explained that we were growing here at Developer Network--not only with all the new services being made available through the Platform, but also with people and staff to make things happen. I am happy to announce that we have filled both positions and are excited to get even more things cooking for you. So with that, I want to introduce Andrea (pronounced Ann-drea as opposed to Ahn-drea), who can tell you about herself, in her own words:

Submitted by alicesneary on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 9:55am
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EZproxy version 5.6 released today

Good news for EZproxy admins! A new version was released today with lots of bug fixes and a few new features to boot. Here's the recap from the official announcement that went out:

Submitted by alicesneary on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 9:25am
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Enhancements for OCLC Web services set for 20 May 2012

The planned install this weekend has a number of enhancements designed to make your life better, as a developer. Of course, I say this with a caveat because it still feels like step 2 of 132 that we have envisioned for having all the services look, act and smell the way we want them to. But, “walk before you run” is what we keep telling ourselves.

What you need to know:

Principle to Principal

Small but important change for all WorldShare (WMS) APIs except NCIP:

Submitted by alicesneary on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 2:23pm
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OCLC control number expansion in 2013

If you've built an app that uses OCLC numbers, here's the official "heads up" that they're expanding next year, and you may need to modify your code:

Submitted by alicesneary on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 3:23pm
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VIAF transitions from prototype to OCLC service

You may have heard the news a couple of weeks ago that VIAF is transitioning from a prototype to a production OCLC service. Yes, and we’re super excited about it. As it said in the official news release,

Submitted by alicesneary on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 10:21am
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There's an App for That! at ER&L right now

Just in case you're hanging out in Austin (or virtually) at ER&L--and wondering what to do--head on over to Salon A/B to hear Andrea Schurr from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga and our own Kathryn Harnish share the new apps they've built and talk about the WorldShare Platform.

Here's the information:

Submitted by alicesneary on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 3:39pm
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