Date/Time:
- 12/07/2011 - 8:30am - 4:30pm
- 12/08/2011 - 8:30am - 4:30pm
Time Zone: Local time
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
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Event Tag: #mashde11
Join fellow coders, developers and idea-generators for the next two-day WorldCat Mashathon. Sponsored by the OCLC Developer Network, WorldCat Mashathon Frankfurt will be held Wednesday and Thursday, 7-8 December at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek in Frankfurt, Germany.
Participants will spend the two days brainstorming and coding mash-ups with Web services and APIs to take advantage of all that WorldCat, the world’s largest and most comprehensive bibliographic database, has to offer. Participants will also learn about the OCLC cooperative platform, how it works and how they can create apps for it. Developers from the library community and beyond are encouraged to attend.
Why attend WorldCat Mashathon Frankfurt?
- Brainstorm and build apps for the Cooperative platform
- Create mash-ups using the WorldCat Search API, WorldCat Identities, MapFAST and other Web services.
- Gain development access to 1.5 billion items from more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.
- Integrate these resources with many others to create innovative new services.
- Meet fellow developers across the information industry.
- Share your creative vision and be a part of the next wave of online library development.
Karen Coombs of the OCLC Developer Network will kick off the session. Additional OCLC staff from Europe and the U.S. will also be available for questions and breakout facilitation. The primary presentations and large-group discussions will be conducted in English, and a light breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack will be provided both days. Ideas, outcomes and code from the Mashathon, together with a participants list, will be shared during and after the event for others to download and build on.
There is no charge for the event, but participants are required to register.
Agenda
08:30 - 09:00 Continental breakfast, Registration
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome, introductions, and an overview of the Mashathon
09:30 - 10:15 Introducing the OCLC Platform, and using the WorldCat Search API
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 Using the WorldCat Knowledge Base, xID, WorldCat Registry, and VIAF
11:30 - 12:00 An Overview of OpenSocial + REST Services
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:30 Focus on APIs from Web-scale Management Services
13:30 - 14:30 Hands on Activity
14:30 - 14:45 Break
14:45 - 16:30 Form breakout groups, get space assignments, and start coding
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 - 14:15 Break
14:15 - 16:00 Reports from breakouts, show and tell, and wrap-up
Presenters
- librarywebchic
- btwashburn
Suggested Hotels
The Pure
Very trendy hotel close to the main station.
25hours Frankfurt
Trendy mid-range accommodation close to Frankfurt main station.
Hotel Excelsior
A quite cheap but decent hotel near Frankfurt main station.
Hotel Am Dom
Mid-range hotel in the historic center.
Things to Do
Public transport information
Trains from Frankfurt Airport to Frankfurt City Center:
Trains from Frankfurt airport run from the airport train station in Terminal 1 (Level 1) to the Frankfurt city center. If your flight arrives at Frankfurt airport Terminal 2, take a bus or the Sky Line to get to the train station in Terminal 1.
Once at the train station in Frankfurt airport’s Terminal 1, take an S-Bahn train from Frankfurt airport to the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof (Main Station) in the Frankfurt city center. The train journey will take 11 minutes.
Trains from Frankfurt airport to the Frankfurt city center operate four times an hour at peak times and less frequently at off-peak times. Trains always operate around the clock for departures from Frankfurt airport to Frankfurt city center.
Taxis from Frankfurt Airport to Frankfurt City Center:
A metered taxi from Frankfurt airport to Frankfurt city center costs around 20-30 EUR one way. The trip takes 20-30 minutes, but can take longer if there is traffic.
A taxi directly to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek will cost around 30 EUR.
From Main Station (Hauptbahnhof) to Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Take subway (U-Bahn) U5, direction Preungesheim
Get off at Nibelungenallee/Deutsche Bibliothek
Possible dinner choices
There is one Greek restaurant just along the street, only a few hundred meters away. It’s supposed to be quite good:
NIBELUNGENSCHÄNKE
Nibelungenallee 55
60318 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.: (069) 55 42 44
Fax: (069) 59 38 61
An Italian restaurant more in the center:
QUATTRO
Ristorante italiano
Gelbehirschstraße 12
60311 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.: +49 (0)69 29 37 77
Fax: +49 (0)69 29 55 15
And a bit more exotic but very good, a Persian restaurant close to the main station.
Restaurant Hafez
Baseler Str. 21
60329 Frankfurt
Telefon: +49 (69) 23 23 01
Telefax: +49 (69) 24 27 94 15
E-Mail: service@restaurant-hafez.de
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