Results, Videos, and Prototypes From OCLC Mashathon U.S. and Europeana Hackathon

If you’re not a developer (like us) it’s always interesting learn about what those with coding skills have created at mashathons/hackathons.

You can read about what was developed at these events and and in some cases see that mashups in action. Now and then live demos are available and/or you can contact the developer(s) to learn more. Finally, it’s interesting to sit back and consider where the mashup might be useful to you, your colleague, and users.

“Show and Tell: WorldCat Mashathon US Wrap Up”
The event took place on April 7-8, 2011  in multiple locations around the U.S.

Thee Three Mashups We Looked at First (Your Results May Vary)

• Call Number Browse
  Andrea Schurr, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

• Netflix at My Library
  Karen Coombs, OCLC Developer Network

• Small Library Web presence
  Bruce Washburn, OCLC Research

Video demos for these and the other mashups are embedded on this web page.

Europeana Hackathon Prototypes
The event took place in the Netherlands at the beginning of April with 35 developers from 9 countries. The hackathon took place at tehe Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum. Online prototypes only available for some hacks.

• Europeana Geo Search App for Android
  “Records from Europeana with geo coordinates nearby your location.”
• Live Demo: Visual Browsing Europeana
  Background on hackathon page.
• Tag Hero game
  The game is built on WordPress. The basic idea of ‘Tag Hero’ is to deal with randomness of the collections, make it social, more game-like challenge than just tagging, and find solutions for tag validation for specialist, multilingual terms.

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