November 12 Meeting Notes

From Metro Collaborate

November 12th Meeting

Contents 1 OCLC Hackathon 2 Hackathon Tracks 3 Open APIS 4 Interesting Stuff 5 Homegrown ERMS 6 http://nyc.code4lib.org/ 7 Future Meeting Locations and Times 8 Future Program Ideas

OCLC Hackathon

• http://infomotions.com/blog/2008/11/worldcat-hackathon/ Nice Recap of the Event with Links
• http://worldcat.org/devnet/wiki/Presentations
• http://worldcat.org/devnet/wiki/Services
• http://worldcat.org/webservices/catalog/
• http://worldcat.org/webservices/catalog/evaluator.html (Requires a Valid Worldcat Key)
• http://www.yourbigwig.com/node/32 - Excellent David Walker presentation
• How limited are the terms of use?
• Any Current OCLC Member Qualifies for a key

Hackathon Tracks

• Find More Like This use the web service to locate related items in your local library network
• http://vufind.org/
• http://drupal.org/

Open APIS

• http://techessence.info/apis

Interesting Stuff

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LkNlTNHZzE - Google Phone Demo
• http://www.zoomii.com/ - Visual shelf browser using Amazon Web Services

Homegrown ERMS

• http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi - Standard for vendor stats for libraries
• Princeton PHP/Mysql System

http://nyc.code4lib.org/

• What should we do with this domain? http://nyc.code4lib.org/
• Not much consensus here on what to do
• We do need to make sure to advertise meetings on the National List, not just the METRO lists.

Future Meeting Locations and Times

• Not too many of those present were enthusiastic about meeting outside of Manhattan unless there was a compelling reason to do so.
• Those present were generally agreeable that the 10-12 time slot on Wednesday morning worked well.

Future Program Ideas

• Liblime
• Have a more fully fleshed out program agenda ahead of time.