Developer Network:Fostering Innovation

Roy TennantOCLC Research

What is the Developer Network?

• Community of developers

• Communication environment

• Learning environment

• Sharing environment

What does the community do?

•Learns how to use OCLC Web Services

•Engages in discussion and focus groups

•Shapes the future of OCLC Web Services

•Shares software code

How Do Developers Participate?

•Developer Network website

•Developer Network Events

•Use the Web Services

•Listserv

•Add Applications to the Gallery

•Participate in “interest groups”

Developer Network Events

•Mashathons

•April 7-8, 2011 – WorldCat Mashathon U.S.Dublin, OH; Washington, DC; San Mateo, CA

•Webinars

•Training

•Catch us at other conferences

•LITA Forum

•Access

•code4lib

WorldCat Hackathon 2008

OCLC Bootcamp, Code4Lib 2009

Our firstOur first““Virtual”Virtual”MashathonMashathon

Demo Code

•SVN Repository of code used for teaching and demonstrations

•Licensed under Apache 2

•Mostly PHP code – created by Karen Coombs

•Some Android mobile code written by Bruce Washburn of OCLC Research

•Bookminder app

•Wise Guy app

Peer Reviewed Journal Script

Classify and Terminology Services in MARCEdit

Latest Journal Table of Contents

TRLN Author Suggestions

VuFind and OCLC Web Services

CompareEverywhere Library Links

CompareEverywhere Library Information

CompareEverywhere API Traffic Spike

CompareEverywhere, Day 1

More Information

Learn more about the Developer Network – http://oclc.org/developer/

Learn more about OCLC web services –

http://oclc.org/developer/services

Learn more about what developers are building –

http://oclc.org/developer/applications

Contact Info for Karen Coombs

Email: coombsk@oclc.org

IM: librarywebchic

Skype: librarywebchic

Phone: 281-886-0886