Bcs Mashup, extended

Mashup Mayhem RSS Edition Tony Hirst Dept of Communication and Systems, The Open University, UK

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What is a mashup?

What is a mashup? Where are they used?

What is a mashup? Where are they used? How can I make one?

3 flavours

3 flavours
Presentation layer mashup
“ re-presentation”/visualisation

3 flavours
“ re-presentation”/visualistion
Data mashup

3 flavours
“ re-presentation”/visualisation
Data mashup
Process/workflow mashup

Application areas

Web2.0 Enterprise Activism Education

A mashup is a combination of: data from two or more independent sources data and an 'unanticipated' way of presenting it

An unanticipated way of presenting of “data”

Doing more with less...

e.g. maps mashups Google maps - http://maps.google.co.uk http://geocommons.com

http://flickr.com/photos/75468125@N00/1395277674/

If it uses “glue logic” then it is a mashup...

http://flickr.com/photos/todbot/96085777/ “ Simple logic circuits used to connect together more complex circuits which are not perfectly compatible.”

http://flickr.com/photos/eob/55434639

P ersonal L earning E nvironment

Making the content yours

http://flickr.com/photos/chromewaves/2171216654/

So let's mash it up... ...mash it up

Fan-in

Search glue: http://live.com just add &format=rss

“ Library Feeds”
- Library resources
- New books
- Journal tables of contents

http://flickr.com/photos/todbot/96085777/ Glue Logic

Where's the feed?

Feed Autodiscovery

http://digitalworlds.wordpress.com

Nice URLs make life easier too :-)

http://digitalworlds.ouseful.com /category/gamemaker /feed

Uncourse blog emergent link structure

http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/stringle

Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment

Pipework

Fan-in

Filter Filter

Process/Transform

Merge/Fuse

“ Differential Processing”

- search and filtering - maps - page scraping and APIs - visualisation

http://pipes.yahoo.com

Wikipedia scrape

Wikipedia HTML Google Spreadsheet =importHTML CSV Yahoo! Pipe Import CSV KML Google Map Pageflakes Anything Flake <embed>

New York Times Campaign Data Spreadsheet

Lowering the barriers to entry: data accessibility New York Times Campaign Finance API XML Google Spreadsheet =importXML

Google Calendar and Map, Side-by-side

Google Calendar <embed> Calendar View Map View Yahoo! Pipe geocoder Google map <embed> KML

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