Mashups: delicious digital recipes for 2009

9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk Photo: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/996830 , taken by Andrew Smith This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License http://www.slideshare.net/karenblakeman/ Mashups : delicious digital recipes for 2009 BBOD, 5 th May 2009 Karen Blakeman, RBA Information Services http://www.rba.co.uk/ [email_address] Twitter: karenblakeman Tag: bbod0905 #bbod0905 for tweets

What is a mashup?

A digital mashup is a digital media file containing any or all of text, graphics, audio, video and animation drawn from pre-existing sources, to create a new derivative work

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(digital)

Achieved using RSS, APIs (Application Programming Interface), widgets, gadgets, ‘stuff’

Purists say if you use “glue stick’” it is not a mashup, e.g. simply adding a Flickr ‘widget’ to your blog or using a start page

If you use “glue logic” it is a mashup e.g. Yahoo Pipes to combine feeds and sources, filter, process/transform

see Mashed Libraries - What is a Mashup + DEMO

http://www.slideshare.net/psychemedia/mashed-libraries-what-is-a-mashup-demo-presentation

9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Ingredients can be combined in different ways 9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

But you do not expect…. 9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk ..to end up as: ..this

Issues affecting mashups

A mashup is only as good as:

the data and information from which it is compiled

may need to clean up your data

how up to date is the data?

how accurate is the data?

the programming and processes involved in the mashup

e.g. are towns and cities being put in the right country

Copyright issues

legal and free data may be quite old e.g. post code database

check T&Cs and licenses before you use data in your mashup

UK opposes copyright exemptions for mash-ups | OUT-LAW.COM

http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=9838

Mashups: the legal isues | OUT-LAW.COM

http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=7844

Yahoo Finance – http://finance.yahoo.co.uk/

Information from multiple sources

stock exchanges

Thomson Reuters

Digital Look (Directors Dealings)

FactSet JCF (Analyst Opinions)

Annual Reports Service

My Yahoo! 9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

iGoogle 9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

http://www.netvibes.com/ukeig1 9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Netvibes- Dublin City Public Libraries http://www.netvibes.com/dublincitypubliclibraries#Home 9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

http://www.ukeig.org.uk/ 9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk RSS feed from the Blog RSS feed of eLucidate table of contents Combine (mash) feeds using Yahoo Pipes

Yahoo Pipes

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

Combine feeds

Modules for filtering, deduplication, date format and sorting

Not intuitive but plenty of help and tutorials out there

Pipes – Documentation http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs

Yahoo Pipes: A User’s Guide http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/netsys/article.php/3659226

Mashed Libraries

Mashed library - mashing up libraries since 2008

http://mashedlibrary.ning.com/

next event Mashed Library UK 2009 ("Mash Oop North!") will take place at the University of Huddersfield on Tuesday July 7th. The event is now fully booked  #mashlib09

Presentations by Dave Pattern

http://www.slideshare.net/daveyp/

in particular .. http://www.slideshare.net/daveyp/opac-20-and-beyond

from http://www.slideshare.net/daveyp/opac-20-and-beyond 9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Twitterfountain

Combines Flickr photos and tweets

both must be tagged with the event tag e.g. ukeig2009

Photos and tweets are rotated

http://www.twitterfountain.nl/

Simply fill in the boxes and add the code to your blog or web page

See http://www.ukeig.org.uk/conf2009/index.html

Google Maps

UK - http://maps.google.co.uk/

Combines

street maps

Google Earth satellite images

Google Street View

Yell.com data for business locations

Google Web

photos, videos

traffic, London Underground

Easy to create own maps and add markers and information

MapAList - Create and Manage Maps of Address Lists

http://mapalist.com/

e.g. Charles Arthur: BT 'fast broadband' locations mapped by Mapalist | Technology | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/mar/23/broadband-fibre-cabinet-bt-map

#uksnow Tweets - http://www.benmarsh.co.uk/snow/

9.55 am 2 nd February 2009

Google Earth & Twitter

hashtag #uksnow

Twitterers asked to include first half of post code and give the snowfall marks out of ten e.g. #uksnow RG4 3/10

Potential quality issues:

location of twitterers

awareness of how to enter uksnow details

different perceptions of heaviness of snow

uksnow boredom

Google Maps – The Star Inn, Caversham (oops) 9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk The Star Inn is actually here But it isn’t Google’s fault!

Yell.com/Multimap – Star Inn 9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

UK job losses 9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

UK Library Closures 9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Berkshire Flood Map 9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

FluTracker http://flutracker.rhizalabs.com/ 9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

#UKeiG2009 – 2009 Manchester Conference http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=110570051274085090370.00045ba9455f01c9658b8&ll=53.472186,-2.241297&spn=0.011316,0.038624&z=15 9 June 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

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