DevConnect Webinars
In DevConnect webinars, you’ll learn about OCLC APIs and other technologies, like IIIF and serverless, and build skills that allow you to get more out of OCLC services.
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03 June 2020
Moving to production
Join us as we wrap up our DevConnect Online 2020 series. You will come away with specific ideas for refining and productionizing projects. Content covered will be aimed at advanced API users, but all are welcome to attend.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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20 May 2020
Building an OpenRefine Reconciliation Endpoint for a Wikibase project: Lessons Learned
This webinar will review the system architecture for the CONTENTdm Wikibase project, describe the Wikidata OpenRefine endpoint, update progress from the W3C community group, and explore the OCLC alternative OpenRefine endpoint in more detail, with a discussion of lessons learned.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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13 May 2020
Data Migration: updating Local Holding Records and Local Bibliographic Data using OCLC’s Metadata and Collection Management APIs
In 2019, McGill University Library migrated its library system to WorldShare. Learn how they improved data quality and ensured all data was migrated by automatically updating Local Holding Records and Local Bibliographic Data using OCLC’s Metadata and Collection Management APIs to add notes.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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29 April 2020
Collaborative collections and OCLC’s Shared Print API
Understanding collection compositions can be challenging. In this webinar you’ll learn how OCLC’s Shared Print API makes it easier for libraries to see which materials will be retained by other institutions and which should be retained locally.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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15 April 2020
Meet your students where they are: Connect the library with OCLC APIs and the Lean Library plugin
Learn how the Lean Library browser plug-in can solve access issues for your library by integrating with the WorldCat knowledge base API. Presenters will include representatives from Lean Library and the OCLC API product team.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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01 April 2020
Developing reports and workflow tools for libraries using Google Apps Script
This is an introduction to the Google Apps Script development platform. Presenters from the Lehigh University Libraries will review how to build Google Sheets add-on reports and workflow tools by interacting with bibliographic data APIs.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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18 March 2020
Getting started with OCLC APIs
This is an introduction to OCLC APIs in which you’ll come away with a basic knowledge of how our APIs work and some tips on getting started.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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08 May 2019
Leveraging Serverless for Voice Uls
In this workshop participants learn how to create an Alexa Skill.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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03 April 2019
Serverless in Practice
This workshop is a follow-up to the "Introduction to Serverless Technologies" workshop.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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20 March 2019
Introduction to Serverless Technologies
This workshop reviews the basic concepts of serverless, the major providers in the serverless space, related technologies, and relevant languages and frameworks.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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