From WorldCat Developers' Network

WorldCat Hackathon

November 7-8, 2008

9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Science, Industry and Business Library, New York Public Library, 188 Madison Avenue

Hackathon Presentations

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Join fellow coders, hackers and tech-enthusiasts for a two-day WorldCat Hackathon at the New York Public Library. Sponsored by the OCLC Developer’s Network and NYPL Labs of The New York Public Library, the WorldCat Hackathon gives participants the opportunity for two full days of brainstorming and coding mash-ups with local systems and other Web services to take advantage of all that WorldCat, the world’s largest bibliographic database, has to offer.

• It’s a chance for anyone interested in structured data to get their hands on the new WorldCat Search API.
• Participants both inside and outside the library industry are encouraged to participate.
• Gain development access to 1.2 billion items from more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.
• Integrate these resources with many others to create innovative new services.
• Share your creative vision and be a part of the next wave of online library development.

Roy Tennant of OCLC Programs and Research and longtime Code4Lib participant will kick off the session. Additional OCLC staff from WorldCat Web Services and product management will also be available for questions and breakout facilitation. Ideas, outcomes and code from the Hackathon, together with a linked participants list, will be shared during and after the event for others to download and build on.

Web Services provided for the Hackathon by OCLC include the following:

• WorldCat API
• xISBN, xISSN, xOCLCNUM
• WorldCat Identities
• Registries including institution, reviews, citations (lists), tagging
• Terminologies
• Metadata Crosswalk

(See the Services section for more information.)

Bring your laptop, your ideas and your curiosity, and we’ll supply breakfast, lunch and snacks. We will also facilitate forming dinner groups for Friday night. Also, every participant receives a t-shirt.

A small registration fee of US$ 30 is required to participate. Space is limited to the first 65 participants, so register early to assure your participation.

Sign up to share rides, rooms, or whatever.

If you've signed up, introduce yourself and what you're working on.

Draft Schedule

8:30 - 9:00 	Continental breakfast, Registration
9:00 - 9:30	Introductions, overview of the two days, etc.
9:30 - 10:30	Brief descriptions and examples of available services
10:30 - 12:00	Form breakout groups, get space assignments, get started if time
12:00 - 1:00	Box lunch, free to take a break or continue work
1:00 - 4:00	Work in breakout groups

Evening - optional no-host dinner groups or keep working
 
8:30 - 9:00	Continental breakfast
9:00 - 12:00	Breakout groups
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch
1:00 - 2:00	Breakout groups, including preparing for reporting back/demoing to the group
2:00 - 3:30	Reports from breakouts
3:30 - 4:00	Wrap-up

About the venue

The Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL), a part of the New York Public Library, is the nation’s largest public information center devoted solely to science and business.

Science, Industry and Business Library New York Public Library 188 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016

All WorldCat Hackathon activities will be covered by a BSD license.

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