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= WorldCat Search API: Code and Sample Applications =

''Last updated 18 July 2009''

== Modules and Code Libraries ==

[http://matienzo.org/project/worldcat Python Module for working with the WorldCat API and xID] - By [http://matienzo.org/ Mark Matienzo] (anarchivist), The New York Public Library

[[Code_PHP_OpenSearch|PHP function for WorldCat API OpenSearch requests]] - By Bruce Washburn, OCLC

[[SampleAppWCIWidget|WorldCat Identities Widget]] - By Bruce Washburn, OCLC

[http://rubyforge.org/projects/wcapi/ Ruby Gem for working with the WorldCat Search API] - By [http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/ Terry Reese], Oregon State University Library. See also his [http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/618 blog post].

== Presentations ==

[http://www.yourbigwig.com/node/32 WorldCat API, Social Software, and making things easier]<br/>
A set of short presentations prepared by David Walker, California State University, for the BIGWIG Social Software showcase at ALA Annual 2008.  In these presentation, David describes some of the things Cal State is doing with the WorldCat API, other application programming interfaces, and why this is important to libraries in general, and the utility of social software in libraries in particular.

[[SampleAppYahooPipes|Hello WorldCat]] -- A Yahoo! Pipes Tutorial for building a simple citation formatter<br/>
This tutorial provides the steps for creating a simple application in Yahoo! Pipes.  With your Yahoo! account and a WorldCat Search API key, you can build an application that prompts for search terms and returns results in a specified bibliographic citation format.

== Applications ==

[http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/218/worldcat-wordpress-widget/ WordPress Widget]<br/>
Karen Coombs, the Head of Web Services at the University of Houston Libraries, has developed a WordPress Widget that obtains search requests from the WorldCat API and combines these with other features provided in APIs from Amazon, Google, and Library Thing.

[http://apps.facebook.com/worldcat/ WorldCat Facebook Widget]<br/>
OCLC's WorldCat Facebook widget uses the API's SRU protocol with Dublin Core format responses to display search results within Facebook. 

[http://apps.facebook.com/citemeapp/ CiteMe Facebook Widget]<br/>
OCLC's CiteMe Facebook widget uses the API's OpenSearch request with pre-formatted citations to return a search result, with the display of individual citations to support copying and pasting into bibliographies.

[http://thesecretmirror.com/code/api-fun-visualizing-holdings-locations  Visualizing Holding Locations]<br/>
Given an OCLC record number and a ZIP code, it plots the locations of the nearest holdings of that item on a Google Map. By Mark Matienzo, written in Python.

[http://spirs.lib.montana.edu/worldcat/ Feed Me Some Worldcat]<br/>
Run a search on Worldcat - Get an Opensearch feed for your feedreader. Sit back and get updates on Worldcat topics. By [http://www.jasonclark.info Jason Clark], written in PHP.

== Articles ==
Matienzo, Mark. [http://pymag.phparch.com/c/issue/view/100 Using the OCLC WorldCat APIs], ''Python Magazine'' 3(6) (June 2009).


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