Featured applications
Connect OCLC’s WorldShare® Management Services (WMS) with the market-leading resource list management system, Talis Aspire. Resource lists in Aspire appear in WMS workflows around the discovery, acquisition, receiving, and withdrawal of library materials.
Integrates with: WorldShare Management Availability API, WorldCat® Search API, WorldCat knowledge base API
MarcEdit is a free metadata editing suite that provides integration with a number of OCLC web services and APIs.
Integrates with: Classify, WorldCat Metadata API, WorldCat Search API
This custom printing application uses the WorldCat Search API and the WMS Collection Management API to provide additional label printing capabilities for users of OCLC's WMS system.
Integrates with: WMS Collection Management API, WorldCat Search API
Upcoming and on-demand webinars
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21 June 2022
DevConnect 2022: How MARC can SPARQL!
This presentation takes the skills and tools adopted by libraries for dealing with linked data and applies those methodologies, focusing primarily using RDF and SPARQL, and proposes their suitability in retrospective analysis of existing MARC data.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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16 June 2022
DevConnect 2022: Integrating WorldShare Acquisitions and Banner using OCLC’s Acquisitions API
Mr. Steve Lapommeray of McGill University uses OCLC APIs to enhance acquisitions workflows. During this presentation, he'll share details of API-related projects that he has completed.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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07 June 2022
DevConnect 2022: Wrapping OCLC APIs with Node.js webservices
Larry Deck of Concordia University Library will discuss how to make such webservice wrappers with Node.js, using asynchronous calls to OCLC APIs, and caching results locally to speed up repeated queries and avoid abusing OCLC services.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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API Community
Join the new OCLC API Community
The Community Center is OCLC’s online forum connecting library peers to each other and to OCLC staff. The API community offers a dedicated space for technologists to ask questions, make connections, get updates about OCLC APIs, and contribute ideas for future development.
New Community Center users without WorldShare credentials or WorldCat Discovery staff accounts will need to request community access.
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