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Downtime for the WorldCat Search and Basic APIs 13 January 2013

On this Sunday, 13 January 2013 there will be a scheduled service downtime for the OCLC WorldCat Search APIs available through the Platform from 2:00 am to 4:00 am ET (-5 GMT).

During the downtime, the WorldCat APIs will receive planned maintenance. Downtime will be minimized as much as possible.

Any questions, please let us know.

Submitted by meyerst on Fri, 01/11/2013 - 3:56pm
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Check out presentations and information from our panel at CIL!

Last month I had the pleasure of participating on a panel with Jason Griffey from University of Tennessee Chattanooga and Eliot Polak from Norwich University on Plugin and Play Apps. We talked about how the WorldShare Platform can enable libraries to build and share cool custom apps with one another. Jason talked provided an intro to the concepts of platforms and their power.

Submitted by librarywebchic on Wed, 03/28/2012 - 1:55pm
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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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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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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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During the downtime

Submitted by alicesneary on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:39pm.

During the downtime, please contact operators@oclc.org if you need assistance.

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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Welcome Credo Reference

You may have seen the recent news release that Credo Reference is going to enable libraries to use their WorldCat Search API WSkey to display WorldCat results within the Credo Reference system. Enhancements like this one take the user one step closer to having all the possible library resources available--no matter where they start their search. It fits OCLC's strategy of putting libraries and WorldCat data where users are already going.

Submitted by alicesneary on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 10:14am
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Introduction to Web Services Webinar scheduled for Thursday, July 28

Heard people talk about "using APIs and Web Services" and not quite sure what they were talking about? Or more likely--been talking about Web Services to your colleagues or manager/director and gotten blank looks?

Join Karen Coombs of the OCLC Developer Network as she demystifies the topic. Send your fellow staff members, to help them understand what you do.

Submitted by alicesneary on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 10:20am
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Enhancements to WorldCat Search API

This past weekend we added some new enhancements to the WorldCat Search API.

New Open Digital Limit

The new Open Digital Limit is available through the SRU queries.  This limit returns records describing digital content contributed to WorldCat from open access digital repositories.  Records contain that URLs the point to the digital file.

The searchable values are:

Submitted by librarywebchic on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 2:26pm
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From the archives: How we built the WorldCat Facebook App using the WorldCat Search API

Way back in 2007, when Facebook was new and interesting to me, as part of my work in testing how the WorldCat Search API would behave in the real world I wrote a Facebook app that would search WorldCat.  

Submitted by btwashburn on Fri, 06/10/2011 - 8:55am
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