Planned downtime for the WorldShare Platform on 27 October 2013
On Sunday, 27 October 2013, there will be a scheduled service downtime for all production OCLC Web services using WSKey authentication from 2:00 am to 6:00 am EDT (-4 GMT).The following services do not...
View ArticleRegister for the WorldCat Knowledge Base API Workshop on 29 Oct, 2013
Related Web Service(s): WorldCat knowledge base APII'm excited to announce the second event in our API Workshop series - the WorldCat knowledge base API Workshop. If you missed the first one, the...
View ArticleUsers Unable to Request or Manage WSKeys in OCLC Service Configuration
WSKey request and management options are currently not appearing in OCLC Service Configuration. While we are working on resolving this problem as quickly as possible, please be assured that existing...
View ArticleResolved - Users Now Able to Request and Manage WSKeys in OCLC Service...
WSKey Requests and Management are once again fully operational in OCLC Service Configuration. We apologize for the inconvenience.If you're new to Developer Network, you can learn more about WSkeys in...
View ArticleNow Playing: WorldCat knowledge base API Workshop
Related Web Service(s): WorldCat knowledge base APII hope everyone who attended the webinar last week enjoyed it - thanks for attending and participating! Jeff Carter and Brian Cassidy were terrific!...
View ArticleJoin Us at the LibHack Hackathon on Jan 24, 2014
Related Web Service(s): WorldCat Search APII hope you have seen the announcement from Library Code Year Interest Group (LCY IG) about the ALA Midwinter Hackathon on January 24th. All of us here at...
View ArticleLittle House on the Network
Since joining OCLC in April of 2010, I’ve had the opportunity to participate in (and, as those of you who attended the mashathon in Boston may remember, break my foot at!) several mashathon events with...
View ArticleJoin us at the Web Service Keys for APIs Workshop on 9 December 2013
What questions do you have about WSKeys?Depending on your level of expertise with authentication, you might be wondering anything from how you pronounce “WSKey” to how we support authentication for...
View ArticleDecember 2013 Enhancements for the WorldShare Platform Scheduled
Related Web Service(s): WorldCat Metadata APIWork continues on the WorldShare Platform and I want to bring your attention to a couple of enhancements coming to the WorldCat Metadata API.Note that on...
View ArticleWeb Service Keys for APIs Workshop Rescheduled for 7 January 2014
We've rescheduled this free Workshop for Tuesday, 7 January at 11am Eastern.Join us for this session where Steve Meyer will talk about the principles and implementation of the digital signatures that...
View ArticleWorldCat Metadata API Integration in MarcEdit
Related Web Service(s): WorldCat Metadata APITerry Reese recently posted about his experience integrating the WorldCat Metadata API into MarcEdit. There are a lot of benefits for our mutual users, but...
View ArticleComments Welcome
I wanted to be sure to let you know that we recently disabled the comments functionality here on the Developer Network site. Unfortunately, we were just about overcome by spam — to find your treasures...
View ArticleWorldCat Metadata API Temporarily Unavailable
Related Web Service(s): WorldCat Metadata APIWe are experiencing a problem with the WorldCat Metadata API web service and it is temporarily unavailable. Our investigation so far points to a...
View ArticleAnnouncing the OCLC Auth Ruby gem
We are happy to announce the release of the OCLC Auth Ruby gem via Github. This code library is the first implementation that the OCLC Developer Network will be releasing to assist developers working...
View ArticleIntroducing the WorldCat Registry RDF Interface
Related Web Service(s): Worldcat RegistryWe're pleased to announce that users now have two options for accessing WorldCat Registry data: In addition to the existing SRU/XSD Interface, an RDF Interface...
View ArticleWorldCat Metadata API Status Update
Related Web Service(s): WorldCat Metadata APIAfter further troubleshooting, we have determined a resolution to the communication problem we told you about in the previous post. We are planning to...
View ArticleWorldCat Metadata API Issue Resolved
Related Web Service(s): WorldCat Metadata APIAs a follow up to my post last week, the issue with the WorldCat Metadata API was resolved as planned on Friday and this API is ready and available.If you...
View ArticleNow Playing: Web Service Keys for APIs Workshop
We had a really engaged group at last week's workshop - thanks to everyone who attended and asked such good questions! I'm happy to share both the Slides (PDF) and the Workshop Recording (WebEx) as...
View ArticleMobile Authentication Tutorials Available
Two weeks ago we released a Ruby library for authenticating OCLC Web Services, and made the code available on the OCLC Developer Network Github Repository. Today we are turning to the client side with...
View ArticleWelcome to Developer House
Developer House kicks off this afternoon and we are so excited to welcome 12 terrific library developers bringing a variety of experience and skills: Sara Amato, Joe Atzberger, Terry Brady, Brian...
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