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Application gallery
See what’s possible with OCLC Web Services. Members of the OCLC Developer Network and participants at WorldCat Mashathons have created these apps and mash-ups—and we'd love to showcase your interesting idea here, too. Send us a screen shot, URL and a short write-up about your project.
Improving library catalogs
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Also Available at a WorldCat Library
Created at the May 2009 WorldCat Mashathon in Amsterdam, the “Also available at” sidebar in the Wageningen UR Library Catalogue development site uses the WorldCat Search API and the WorldCat Registry OpenURL Gateway to display a location-sensitive listing for other WorldCat libraries who also hold the item.
Developed by: Peter van Boheemen, Wageningen University
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Send it to me
Created during the WorldCat Hackathon 2008 in New York, Send it to me uses ISBN matching to faciliate borrowing items locally or to help the user find other similar items like that one, purchase it, and/or begin an interlibrary loan request.
Developed by: Eric Lease Morgan emorgan@nd.edu, Notre Dame University
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Keyword suggester on Drupal
Created during the WorldCat Hackathon 2008 in New York, this application seeks new ways of enhancing the quality of folksonomic tags by offering users suggestions from controlled vocabularies like MESH.
Developed by: Chad Fennell fenne035@gmail.com, University of Minnesota
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LouFind
LouFind uses the WorldCat Search API—including citation—and the WorldCat Registry to find libraries near Brandeis. It helps users determine who holds the book, and provides detailed location information on each library, which is then fed to the Google Maps API. LouFind is written in PHP.
Developed by: Greg McClellan, Brandeis University
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Search for Similar Titles
One of the top users of the service, Heidelberg University employs xISBN to map book relations in HEIDI, the online public access catalog for all four library locations. In the user interface, this functionality is expressed through the “Search for Similar Titles” link.
Developed by: Leonhard Maylein Maylein@ub.uni-heidelberg,.de Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
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Online Catalog
Cal State is using the WorldCat Search API to create a customized interface to WorldCat. This view seamlessly integrates WorldCat results into their library Web sites and meta search systems, with hooks into local catalog systems, their link resolver, and a whole host of other systems and services designed for undergraduate research.
Developed by: David Walker, California State University
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Going mobile
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Compare Everywhere
$275,000 winner of Google’s Android Developer Challenge contest in December 2008, Compare Everywhere is an application for Google Android which lets shoppers and readers find and compare prices for a particular item at stores and libraries in a given area.
Developed by: Jeffrey Sharkey
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Engaging users
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WorldCat Facebook app
A Facebook app (complete with book covers!) that helps users find interesting items in a library nearby--without ever having to leave the Facebook environment. It also shows you your friends favorite lists, and give suggestions for "something to read" based on your listed profile interests.
Developed by: Bruce Washburn, washburnb@oclc.org, OCLC Research
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CiteMe Facebook app
A Facebook app that delivers formatted citations from WorldCat from right within Facebook. You can add the app to personal profiles or organizational Pages.
Developed by: Bruce Washburn, washburnb@oclc.org, OCLC Research
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Digital Library Program
A prototype using the experimental OCLC Terminologies Service for the Digital Library Program's collections. A query is expanded and broader and related terms are suggested.
Developed by: Michael Durbin midurbin@indiana.edu, Indiana University
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Author’s Works, Check Nearby Libraries
Links from the local catalog that help the user find more works by the same author through a link to WorldCat Identities, and a link to find the item in nearby libraries through linking to WorldCat.org via the permalink for each item—the OCLC number.
Developed by: Judy Hsu, The University of the West
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Extending Online Museum Collections
Using museum data exchange formats and Yahoo Pipes, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is prototyping online collection entries that include bibliographic data via the WorldCat Search API, books by and about artists using WorldCat Identities, and extended search terms from the OCLC Terminologies Service
Developed by: Piotr Adamczyk, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Feed Me Some WorldCat
Feed Me Some WorldCat lets you track the latest items to be entered into WorldCat through a simple keyword/topic search. It sorts the most recently added items to the top by date, using PHP and OpenSearch. Sit back and get updates on WorldCat through your feed reader.
Developed by: Jason Clark, Montana State University
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PrimateLit
PrimateLit is a free bibliographic database for primatology that relies on the WorldCat Registry for OpenURL recognition. This OpenURL recognition provides full text access to articles for any institution from any location.
Developed by: Sue Dentinger sdentinger@library.wisc.edu, University of Wisconsin – Madison
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WorldCat WordPress Widget
A widget for WordPress that searches WorldCat and returns bibliographic data via the WorldCat Search API and then recombines it with book covers from Amazon, links to previews (when available) in Google Books and reviews from LibraryThing. It displays results in the sidebar of WordPress.
Developed by: Karen Coombs, Library Web Chic, University of Houston Libraries
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WorldCat World Tour
Created at the May 2009 WorldCat Mashathon in Amsterdam, WorldCat World Tour is an app that finds artists’ albums through the WorldCat Search API and uses a UK-based streaming music service to play the musical tracks online.
Developed by: Julian Cheal, UKOLN
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Reusing modules (Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.)
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Ruby Gem Component
This app provides the rudimentary components for Ruby to make it easier to process OCLC-provided data. Essentially, these are a handful of convenience functions that make it much easier to call and utilize the data available through the WorldCat Search API.
Developed by: Terry Reese, Oregon State University
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WorldCat Python Module
An open source module for the Python programming language that interacts with the WorldCat Search API and the xISBN/xLCCN/xOCLCNUM/xISSN web services. Developers can build working prototypes rapidly using the bibliographic, holdings and citation information available in WorldCat records. Sample applications, such as Google Maps, interface for displaying holdings information and a subject-based book recommender are included.
Developed by: Mark A. Matienzo, Digital Experience Group, The New York Public Library
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Partner sites
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ERIC
ERIC provides Find in a Library links in records that contain an ISSN or ISBN. ERIC users navigate either to their institution’s holdings or to WorldCat.org for a list of the nearest libraries holding the resource.
Developed by: Jane Atwell jatwell2@csc.com, ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
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RefWorks
Through the OpenURL Gateway in the WorldCat Registry, RefShare “owners” can change the OpenURL link in their shared folder to point to their up-to-date WorldCat Registry information. This means that RefShare viewers, from any WorldCat-registered university, can now be directed to their full-text access. Before the OpenURL Gateway, users from outside the instiutions could not be redirected.
Developed by: Colleen Stempien Colleen.Stempien@refworks-cos.com, RefWorks
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Zotero
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself. Zotero uses the WorldCat Registry's OpenURL Gateway as its default resolver. In many cases, it connects automatically to the resource on your campus.
Developed by: Trevor Owens trevor.johnowens@gmail.com, Center for History and New Media
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