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Keep up to date with the latest developments, technical briefs on the platform and services, and general goings on here at the Developer Network.
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Guest Post by Terry Reese: My A-Z List Ruby Gem and Demo Application
If you haven’t been paying attention, OCLC has been quietly working to provide greater developer access to a wide variety of their services. They’ve been expanding their API offeri...
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Mobile Apps - Introduction to Development
With more patrons than ever interacting with institutions from their mobile devices, OCLC users have been expressing interest in developing their own mobile apps. OCLC offers support with new APIs and OAuth2 security patterns. In this blog post, we t...
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Join us at the Web Service Keys for APIs Workshop on 9 December 2013
What questions do you have about WSKeys?
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Now Playing: WorldCat knowledge base API Workshop
I hope everyone who attended the webinar last week enjoyed it - thanks for attending and participating! Jeff Carter and Brian Cassidy were terrific! We love seeing the API in action and they are doing some really interesting things with this API at t...
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Testing Web Services
One of my roles with the Developer Network is to test and teach OCLC web services. While it isn't part of my job to do the regular testing of the services, there are some other things that go hand in hand with it that are: documentation and support f...
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URL Encoding Special Characters in API requests
This issue of url encoding special characters is something you want to keep in mind with any form input you send to an API. An example of this with WorldCat Search API is if someone puts in a title search like "Kate & Leopold". The ampe...
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Two new visualizations for ELAG
I'm doing a presentation on visualizing library data at ELAG this week. I'm showing off some demonstrations that I built for code4lib 2011 and some new demos that I've built for ELAG. The new demonstrations for ELAG take advantage of two OCLC web ser...