worldcat developers network

I attended today's WorldCat Developers Network luncheon at the Westin Boston Waterfront. I got to meet a number of colleagues whom I spent time with at the Seattle mashathon last fall, and the presentations were informative.

I've done a couple of small things, which I hope to expand on over time:

• I wrote a Visual Basic/ASP.NET program (output; one example) that takes an Amazon list and redirects users back to a WorldCat Local instance when appropriate. (If it's a Kindle book, the link remains unchanged, sending the user to an Amazon record.)
  
  
• I wrote a subject search program, also in Visual Basic/ASP.NET, that uses the Search API and xISBN for results information. This is still a work in progress.
  

There's a lot to admire in the network's application gallery, and having a developers network manager, Karen Coombs (she starts later this month) in place will undoubtedly move forward the efforts to extend WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local.