Join fellow coders for a two-day WorldCat Mashathon at the University of Washington in Seattle. Sponsored by the OCLC Developer Network and UW Libraries, the WorldCat Mashathon gives participants the opportunity for two full days of brainstorming and coding mash-ups with local systems and other Web services to take advantage of all that WorldCat, the world’s largest bibliographic database, has to offer.

*It’s a chance for anyone interested in structured data to get their hands on the WorldCat Search API.

*Participants both inside and outside the library industry are encouraged to participate.

*Gain development access to over 144 million bibliographic records from more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.

*Integrate these resources with many others to create innovative new services.

*Share your creative vision and be a part of the next wave of online library development.

Roy Tennant of OCLC Research and longtime Code4Lib participant will kick off the session. Additional OCLC staff who have created these services will also be available for questions and breakout facilitation. Ideas, outcomes and code from the Mashathon, together with a linked participants list, will be shared during and after the event for others to download and build on.

Web Services provided for the Mashathon by OCLC include the following: WorldCat Search API; xISBN, xISSN, xOCLCNUM; WorldCat Identities; Registries including institution, reviews, citations (lists), tagging; Terminologies; Metadata Crosswalk; more.

Bring your laptop, your ideas and your curiosity, and we’ll supply breakfast, lunch and snacks. We will also facilitate forming dinner groups for Thursday night. Also, every participant receives a t-shirt with the Mashathon logo on this page.

Location: Odegaard Undergraduate Library, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Registration Fee: $30