What s a Mashup Why Would I Want

What’s a Mashup & Why Would I Want One? April 17, 2007 Darlene Fichter Head, Indigenous Studies Portal University of Saskatchewan Library

Mashups u. Definition(s) u. Tour u. Making a mashup u. Technical and social issues

What is it? u. A mashup is a web application that uses content from more than one source to create a new service – Content is typically sourced via an API* or a RSS Feed u. Term comes from pop music u. Cool new breed of application on the web *API - set of routines for accessing an application or service

frappr - people + Google Maps http: //www. frappr. com/mashups

Strawberry Daiquiris

Stupidest Term Ever! You’re not mashing up or if you are you’ll get lumps. You should be creating flavorful California cuisine. Tom Reamy The science of scrumptious: why do we loathe lumpy food, pick at our plates, and believe that chocolate will cure all ills? They say there's no accounting for taste, but science is giving it a try Psychology Today, Sept-Oct, 2003

IBM u"The Web 2. 0 powered IBM Enterprise Mashup puts more capability into an individuals hands and gives them more freedom to innovate -- and because Web 2. 0 technologies are based on open standards, integrating them into an open business model is easy for end users and developers alike, " said Smith. http: //www-03. ibm. com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19821. wss

Today’s Playground http: //www. flickr. com/photos/edyson/ (cc) http: //creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/2. 0/

(CC) Photo by Sebastien Prooth http: //flickr. com/photos/sebastianprooth/315686462/

EVDB Technorati Google Maps Amazon Yahoo

Mashup Ecosystem u. Open data u. Open set of services u. Small pieces loosely joined u. You

Mashups and Web 2. 0 Implications u. Fastest growing ecosystems u. Don’t have to get anybody’s approval to provide a new API to the Internet operating systems

DIY Programming u 5 minute customization of applications – No longer the purvey of the techno elite

Created with http: //maps. huge. info/zip. htm

Route Map for Deliveries http: //www. lcls. org/members/routemap. aspx

Newsmap USA Canada http: //www. marumushi. com/apps/newsmap. cfm

Newsmap u. Reveals underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures u. Uses Google News

Earthquake

Book Carousel http: //www. cambridgelibraries. ca/hot/carousel. cfm

Frivolous Flickr Fun u. Colr Pickr u. Captioner! http: //shadydentist. com/captioner http: //krazydad. com/colrpickr Dozens of Flickr Toys: http: //bighugelabs. com/flickr/

Housing Maps http: //www. housingmaps. com

Group Maps for Online Communities http: //www. frappr. com/blogginglibrarians

Live. Plasma & CNet Articles

Mc. Master Library – 5, 000 aerial photos u. Google mashup of aerial photo collection u. Replaces print indexes u. Browse on 2 dimensions: – Time – Space http: //library. mcmaster. ca/maps/airphotos/Home. htm

Pittsburgh University Library u. Yahoo Pipes u. Scopus and Web of Sciences – Publications by their faculty – Output one RSS feed

Facts and Figures u 1799 mashups (March 4, 2007) u 3 new mashups / day Programmable Web – Mashup Dashboard http: //www. programmableweb. com/mashups

Types of Mashups

Mashup Matrix

Typology of the Mashup u Presentation u Client-Side Data u Client-Side Software u Server-Side Data Dion Hinchcliffe, http: //blogs. zdnet. com/Hinchcliffe/? p=49&tag=nl. e 622

Where to Start u. Point & click, & publish u“Cloning” u. Just program it

Google My Map http: //tinyurl. com/3 e 5 xd 9

APIs/Web Services Step 1 – Get an idea Step 2 – Sign up for a developer token http: //aws. amazon. com/ http: //www. google. com/apis/maps/ http: //api. search. yahoo. com/webservices/register_application Step 3 – Read the fine print about use

Community. Walk http: //www. communitywalk. com/

People Listening to this Webcast Add yourself to the map http: //www. frappr. com/mashups/

Other Map Builders umaps. google. com uwww. yourgmap. com uwww. mapbuilder. net uwww. platial. com

Learn from Others

Western springs history a joint project of the Thomas Ford Memorial Library and Western Springs Historical Society APIs: Google Maps http: //www. westernspringshistory. org/map/ Local data: http: //www. westernspringshistory. org/map/data. xml

data. xml

Try More Tools

Just Do It ulib-web-cats u. Directory by Marshall Breeding

Step 1: Find lat/long for each library

Step 2: Create the map

http: //www. talis. com/tdn/competition

Go-go Google Gadget! My Holds My Check-outs New Books Popular

And to Add This You Click

Customized Google Page

Technical Issues u. In its infancy u. Need a better registry for APIs u. Scale and dependencies issues u. How much to invest?

Social Issues u. Intellectual property issues – “right to remix” u. Provenance t. Origin or source t. Authority

Unintended consequences u. Client side scripts that modify pages t All instances of Microsoft on any site are rewritten to say “the d*!? ! Microsoft”

Find out more u. Google Maps Mania http: //googlemapsmania. blogspot. com/ u. Mashup Dashboard http: //www. programmableweb. com/mashups

Thank You u. Questions? u. Email me darlene. fichter@usask. ca u. Comment on my blog