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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