Widgets, Mobile Apps and Mashups
Karen A. Coombs

Widgets
• WorldCat Widget
• WorldCat keyword search widget
• WorldCat search widget
• Embeddable Database widgets
• EBSCO, Proquest, JSTOR Facebook
• Google Widgets
• Embedded Preview - http://code.google.com/apis/books/docs/preview-
wizard.html
• LibraryThing Widgets
• http://www.librarything.com/widget.php

Embeddable Database Widgets

Simple Mobile Apps
• Wordpress plugins for iPhone
• Wordpress plugin for Mobile devices
• xFruits RSS to Mobile - http://xfruits.com/
• Google Books - http://books.google.com/m
• WorldCat.org mobile - http://www.worldcat.org/m

Libraries with Mobile Initiatives
• NCSU
• WolfWalk - http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/wolfwalk/
• University of Virginia - http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/mobile/
• Skokie Public Library - http://www.skokielibrary.info/s_about/
mobile_services.asp#alerts
• DCPL iPhone App - http://dclibrarylabs.org/projects/iphone/
• Oregon State University Libraries - http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/
about_mobile

Creating Mashups with Yahoo Pipes
• Web based service which allows you to process, filter and mashup data from
different sources
• Data sources
• Feed, CSV, Data (in XML format), Flickr, Google Base, etc.
• Output
• RSS, JSON, iGoogle Widget, MyYahoo Widget, Embeddable Javascript

Feed Remixing
• Want to pull together RSS and/or Atom feeds from a variety of sources and
filter and repurpose them
• Possible data sources
• Database search results
• catalog search results
• Journal Table of Contents
• Blogs
• Lists for resources from WorldCat

Making your data mashable
• Lo-fi API
• RSS/Atom feed
• Use systems with APIs
• Drupal, Silverstripe
• Build systems with APIs
• University of Houston website API
• Use data in lots of different applications
• Page metadata, staff, hours

API Calls
http://staging2.lib.uh.edu/api/?
format=html&component=c.hours&metho
d=displayToday
http://staging2.lib.uh.edu/api/?
format=json&component=c.hours&metho
d=displayToday

<h2 id="todayHours">Today's Hours</h2>
<script src="http://staging2.lib.uh.edu/api/api.js" /
>
<script src="http://staging2.lib.uh.edu/api/?
format=json&component=c.hours&method=display
Today&callback=displayTodaysHours" type="text/
javascript" />