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Roy Tennant wrote:
Right, but I also want to point out that those service levels only apply to the WorldCat Search API. We have many other APIs, for which those service levels don't apply. Roy On 4/8/09 4/8/09 • 4:00 PM, "Karen Coyle" <li...@kcoyle.net> wrote:Thanks, Roy. Shortly after you answered I stumbled upon the relevant page explaining the difference between full and default service levels: http://worldcat.org/devnet/wiki/SearchAPIServiceLevels This is very helpful. kc Roy Tennant wrote:The WorldCat Mashathon is not limited to OCLC member institutions, and we certainly had non-OCLC participants at the New York event. We have many APIs, some of which are open to anyone to use and others that require a key. Again, depending on the API, for some you may need to qualify for access to receive a key. We know that we could do a better job making these distinctions apparent, which is something we'll be trying to clarify. In any case, everyone who attends will be provided with an OCLC Web Services Key (WSKey) that will be valid for the period of the event. Those who already have a key will be welcome to use their existing key as well. Roy On 4/8/09 4/8/09 • 3:11 PM, "Karen Coyle" <li...@kcoyle.net> wrote:Roy, can anyone attend, even if not from OCLC member institutions? Also, it looks like only member institutions can use the API, but I may have mis-read -- is that the case? kc Roy Tennant wrote:Join fellow coders for a WorldCat Mashathon in Amsterdam, May 13-14. Sponsored by the OCLC Developer Network and International Institute of Social History (IISH), the two-day event will be held Wednesday and Thursday at IISH headquarters in Amsterdam. The European Mashathon follows on the heels of a previous WorldCat Hackathon in New York City. Participants will spend the two days brainstorming and coding mash-ups with local systems, OCLC Web Services, and many other Web Services to embellish existing, and create new, library services. WorldCat includes national catalogues from the Netherlands, the UK, Ireland, Iceland, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, France, Spain, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Russia and many more‹so there are plenty of potential uses and apps just waiting to happen. Why attend the WorldCat Hackathon? € Brainstorm potential uses for and play with the WorldCat Search API. € Gain development access to 1.2 billion items from more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. € Integrate these resources with many others to create innovative newservices. € Meet fellow developers across the information industry.€ Share your creative vision and be a part of the next wave of online library development. Ideas, outcomes and code from the Mashathon, together with a participants list, will be shared during and after the event for others to download andbuild on.See <http://worldcat.org/devnet/wiki/2009EUMashathon> for more information and to register. Roy Tennant OCLC Research
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