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WorldCat Search API: Sample Applications
Last updated 9 October 2008
Modules and Code Libraries
Python Module for working with the WorldCat API and xID - By Mark Matienzo (anarchivist), Digital Experience Group, The New York Public Library
PHP function for WorldCat API OpenSearch requests - By Bruce Washburn, OCLC
Presentations
WorldCat API, Social Software, and making things easier
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.
Applications
WordPress Widget
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.
WorldCat Facebook Widget
OCLC's WorldCat Facebook widget uses the API's SRU protocol with Dublin Core format responses to display search results within Facebook.
CiteMe Facebook Widget
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.
WorldCat iPhone Experiment
OCLC's experimental iPhone interface to WorldCat, designed to work with the Safari browser on an iPhone or iTouch, uses the WorldCat API for search results and library location data, and also utilizes the WorldCat Identities API for related books and subjects.
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