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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 > > > -- ----------------------------------- Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant [log in to unmask] http://www.kcoyle.net ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet fx.: 510-848-3913 mo.: 510-435-8234 ------------------------------------