The following are user-created applications that utilize WorldCat Search API.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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