Post on 16-Mar-2016
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Mash Me Up
Using Wikipedia toSmarten up Smart SearchNicholas WyantJuly 30, 2009
Mash Up Wikipedia
• Academic Library websites can be boring and difficult to use
• Federated Searching has improved things
• Mash ups will rock our world
Audience
Students
• Students are overwhelmed with the amount of information provided to them
• Providing more information to enable better research
If this is so great…..
• Why aren’t we already doing it?
OpenAPI
• Not all APIs are available
• Amazon, Google Maps, Flickr, etc…all want you to have their API
• Wikipedia does not share that sentiment
How do we make this dream a reality?
• Wikipedia’s API
• Javascript to duplicate the search
• Primo is already geared to do federated searching
So far
• There is a reverse engineered API of wikipedia• Unfortunately it is not reliable• Many universities already employ similar
tactics
What’s Next
• Testing the implementation of Javascript with Smart Search on an existing Open API
• Flickr?