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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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Building the Alibris Application

The purpose of the Alibris application is to allow a library to upload a tab seperated file of titles available in a particular topic area from Alibris, see which titles the library does not own, and then select titles for purchase. The first thing the application does is generate a form which allows a user to input their library's OCLC symbol and upload a tab seperated (TSV) file to the server

 

Submitted by librarywebchic on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 8:59am
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Do you know your HTTP Headers?

In the webinar "Introduction to Web Services" last week, I talked a little bit about HTTP Headers. These are bits of somewhat hidden data which is passed with any HTTP request and response. I consider them hidden because when a user makes a typical HTTP request they don't active send them in the request or see them in the response.

Submitted by librarywebchic on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 1:04pm
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Building three apps to demonstrate the OCLC platform

For the last three months I've been working on the project of building three applications to demonstrate the OCLC cooperative platform. The intention was for any of these applications to be installed easily in the WMS staff interface as potential part of the Acqusitions workflow. The ideas for these apps came out of a brainstorm session I had with my boss and staff who work on the Acquisitions portion of WMS.

Submitted by librarywebchic on Mon, 08/01/2011 - 1:35pm
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Introducing a new app from OCLC Research: the WorldCat Identities Network

Editor's note: JD Shipengrover is a UI Designer for OCLC Research, and she's done a guest post for us today. A team from OCLC Research including Lorcan Dempsey, Thom Hickey, Diane Vizine-Goetz and Jeremy Browning created this nifty app that shows the connections between WorldCat Identities. Read on.

Submitted by alicesneary on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 1:07pm
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EZproxy 5.4.1 released

A new release of EZproxy, version 5.4.1 was made available 7/22/2011. This is the 6th OCLC-released version of the software. OCLC staff can get a full list of changes from the OCLC Web site at http://www.oclc.org/news/announcements/2011/announcement53.htm or read an excerpt of the announcement, below.

Submitted by librarywebchic on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 10:59am
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Learn more about the cooperative platform: Infrastructure

In the second post on the cooperative platform follow up, I talked about the architecture of the cooperative platform, explaining the virtues of OpenSocial and Apache Shindig. Now I’ll give you a quick run down of the third component, the infrastructure. As a review, the three components for the cooperative platform:
• a framework to make data and business logic more available from OCLC's services

Submitted by librarywebchic on Mon, 07/25/2011 - 11:00pm
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Learn more about the cooperative platform: Architecture

In my last post, I talked about the framework of the cooperative platform and how the framework will make data and business logic more available from OCLC services. Now, I’ll go into the architecture.

Submitted by librarywebchic on Thu, 07/21/2011 - 11:00pm
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