DevConnect is an annual OCLC program in which OCLC and library staff share API and technology insights with the library community. DevConnect 2021 content spans a variety of library areas, including collection management, resource sharing, and security. Register below and contact jonesa@oclc.org with questions.
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23 May 2023
Join OCLC experts, Stacy Brunner and Karen Coombs, to learn how your library can link Tipasa, Alma, and Primo.
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
16 May 2023
Larry Deck from the Concordia University will discuss how to use jq to get reports out of various OCLC APIs (Knowledge Base, License Manager, Acquisitions).
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
02 May 2023
Learn how Candace Lebel at The Claremont Colleges Library used the WorldCat Knowledge Base API and a GOBI-provided list of ebook purchases since early 2009 to let their patrons know which of their ebooks were licensed for only limited access.
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
25 April 2023
Discover how Michael Whitton from the University of Southampton automated checking of items linked in Talis Aspire to WMS.
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
18 April 2023
During this session, we share how OCLC's EZproxy Analytics service uses ezPAARSE to enhance EZproxy usage data.
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
13 April 2023
In this presentation, Emily Fidelman of West Virginia University presents an methodology using SQL on MARC pulled from WMS query collections to capture “out-of-ontology" content.
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
05 April 2023
Join OCLC’s Jay Holloway, Karen Coombs, and Carly DiVito for a fun and informative hour of gardening puns and useful advice on how to use community feedback to grow APIs.
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
21 June 2022
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]
16 June 2022
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]
07 June 2022
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]