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Date/Time:

• 09/23/2010 - 1:00pm - 9:00pm
• 09/24/2010 - 1:00pm - 9:00pm

Time Zone: Local time

Location: Microsoft NERD Cambridge, MA

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Cost: $30

Event Tag: MashMA10

Join fellow coders for a two-day WorldCat Mashathon at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center (NERD). Sponsored by the OCLC Developer Network and Brandeis University, the WorldCat Mashathon gives participants the opportunity for two full days of brainstorming and coding mash-ups with local systems and other Web services to take advantage of all that WorldCat, the world’s largest bibliographic database, has to offer. To get an impression of what the event may be like, take a look at pictures from the WorldCat Hackathon in New York and the WorldCat Mashathon in Amsterdam, WorldCat Mashathon in Seattle, VALA Bootcamp OCLC API Mashathon, or WorldCat Mashathon UK.

• It’s a chance for anyone interested in structured data to get their hands on the WorldCat Search API.
• Participants both inside and outside the library industry are encouraged to participate.
• Gain development access to over 144 million bibliographic records from more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.
• Integrate these resources with many others to create innovative new services.
• Share your creative vision and be a part of the next wave of online library development.

Roy Tennant, Senior Program Officer for OCLC Research will kick off the session. OCLC Developer Network manager Karen Coombs and OCLC Research engineer Bruce Washburn will present, walk participants through building a simple sample application and be available for questions and breakout facilitation. Ideas, outcomes and code from the Mashathon, together with a linked participants list, will be shared during and after the event for others to download and build on.
Web Services provided for the Mashathon by OCLC include the following:

• WorldCat Search API
• xISBN, xISSN, xOCLCNUM
• WorldCat Identities
• WorldCat Registry
• QuestionPoint Knowledge Base API

Bring your laptop, your ideas and your curiosity, and we’ll supply breakfast, lunch and snacks. We will also facilitate forming dinner groups for Thursday night. Also, every participant receives a t-shirt with the Mashathon logo on this page.

Schedule

08:30 - 09:00 Continental breakfast, Registration
09:00 - 09:30 Introductions, overview of the two days, etc.
09:30 - 10:00 Overview of OCLC Web Services
10:00 - 10:30 WorldCat Search API
10:30 - 11:00 xID & WorldCat Registry
11:30 - 12:00 Identities and QuestionPoint API
12:00 - 13:00 Box lunch & Intro to OCLC Platform
13:00 - 14:00 Hands on Activity
14:30 - 15:00 Form breakout groups, get space assignments
15:00 - 16:00 Work in breakout groups

16:00 - 17:00 OCLC Platform Focus Group
Evening - optional no-host dinner groups or keep working

08:30 - 09:00 Continental breakfast
09:00 - 12:00 Breakout groups
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Breakout groups, including preparing for reporting back/demoing to the group
14:00 - 15:00 Reports from breakouts
15:00 - 16:00 Wrap-up and Show and Tell [ Register to attend the Show and Tell Virtually via WebEx]

All WorldCat Mashathon activities will be covered by a Apache 2 license.

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