Roy, can anyone attend, even if not from OCLC member institutions? Also, 
it looks like only member institutions can use the API, but I may have 
mis-read -- is that the case?

kc

Roy Tennant wrote:
> Join fellow coders for a  WorldCat Mashathon in Amsterdam, May 13-14.
> Sponsored by the OCLC Developer Network and International Institute of
> Social History (IISH), the two-day event will be held Wednesday and Thursday
> at IISH headquarters in Amsterdam.
>
> The European Mashathon follows on the heels of a previous WorldCat Hackathon
> in New York City. Participants will spend the two days brainstorming and
> coding mash-ups with local systems, OCLC Web Services, and many other Web
> Services to embellish existing, and create new, library services.
>
> WorldCat includes national catalogues from the Netherlands, the UK, Ireland,
> Iceland, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, France, Spain, Switzerland,
> Czech Republic, Lithuania, Russia and many more‹so there are plenty of
> potential uses and apps just waiting to happen.
>
> Why attend the WorldCat Hackathon?
> € Brainstorm potential uses for and play with the WorldCat Search API.
> € 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. 
> € Meet fellow developers across the information industry.
> € Share your creative vision and be a part of the next wave of online
> library development.
>
> Ideas, outcomes and code from the Mashathon, together with a participants
> list, will be shared during and after the event for others to download and
> build on. 
>
> See <http://worldcat.org/devnet/wiki/2009EUMashathon> for more information
> and to register.
>
> Roy Tennant
> OCLC Research
>
>
>   


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