Mashed Libraries: What is a Mashup? Tony Hirst Dept of Communication and Systems, The Open University, UK

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

Presentation layer mashup

“ re-presentation”/visualisation

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

Presentation layer mashup

“ re-presentation”/visualisation

Data mashup

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

Presentation layer mashup

“ re-presentation”/visualisation

Data mashup

Process/workflow mashup

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...

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

Fan-in

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

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

- Library resources

- New books

- Journal tables of contents

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

Nice URLs make life easier too :-)

Pipework

Fan-in

Filter Filter

Process/Transform

Merge/Fuse

“ Differential Processing”

http://pipes.yahoo.com

Tinkering with the Amazon and LibraryThing APIs

Part 1: http://tinyurl.com/56fjwx Part 2: http://tinyurl.com/5uj8n8 Part 3: http://tinyurl.com/6acs9s

Part 1: Calling the Amazon Web Services API from a Google Spreadsheet http://tinyurl.com/56fjwx

Lowering the barriers to entry: data accessibility AmazonAPI XML Google Spreadsheet =importXML

http://www.awszone.com/

=importXML(B3,”//Item”)

//ItemAttributes

//Item[1]/ItemAttributes

//Item[2]/ItemAttributes/Title

Part 2: Looking Up Alternative Copies of a Book on Amazon, via ThingISBN http://tinyurl.com/5uj8n8

http://www.librarything.com/api/thingISBN/ ISBNHERE

Part 3: Amazon Reviews from Different Editions of the Same Book http://tinyurl.com/6acs9s

Items.Item.CustomerReviews.Review

http://ouseful.info