Cec Intro3 Mashups

Mashups, Toolbars,

Add-On‘s, …:

Introduction

Continuing Education Course – EAHIL Workshop Krakow 2007

Guus van den Brekel, Groningen, NL Guus van den Brekel, Groningen, NL Oliver Obst, Münster, DEOliver Obst, Münster, DE

2/30Fortbildung Weblog und RSS

A little about a lot

What is a Mashup? Health Mashups Library Mashups What would you Mashup if you could?

Browser Extensions, … Disussion


What is a Mashup?

1 + 1 = something else Mashup (web application hybrid) A mashup combines two or more

other applications creating another application that can help you better perform different activities.

http://www.programmableweb.com/matrix


Ingredients for a mashup

Public InterfaceAPI (application programming

interface) RSS feed


Examples

WalkScore: http://www.walkscore.com Slidecasts (mashup of PowerPoint slides and

audio). A sample of Google Maps mashup with a

photos/videos sharing webservice A sample of News Mashup with an algorithm

of Artifical Intelligence that learns from interaction

Lunchbox Find restaurant reviews in a particular area using Yelp and Google Maps.

Media Watch on Climate Change Aggregates


Health Mashups?

Who is Sick?http://whoissick.org/sickness/

select a specialty to display doctors on a map http://www.chaddickerson.com/mashups/doctors/

shop for and compare health insurance plans, doctors, dentists, surgical procedures, hospital costs http://www.vimo.com

RateMD , MedBillManager current global state of infectious diseases,

outbreak data of different sources, from news sources http://healthmap.org/


Library Mashups LibraryThing : http://librarything.com LiveTrix : livetrix.ub.rug.nl

(email for “demo” access) Lib 2.0

(firefox add-onhttp://lib20.com/blog/article/30/announcing-l2 Ex Libris Aleph ( MIT ) Endeavor Voyager (

University of Pittsburgh ) Yahoo Pipes allows individuals to

create their own mashups or "pipes."


Search Mashups?

Alternative PubMed Searches: http://www.gopubmed.org/PubReMiner |MorphoSaurus

Google Custom Search Mahaloo Mysyndicaat Livetrix : federated search, stats &

semantics


What would you like to Mashup?

Search tools (easier, faster & better) Find, availability, stats, Relevance,

also View, Reviews, Rate Catalogues, Repositories, Web

Resources, etc …?


An Introduction Into Mashups for Health Librarians / Allan ChoJournal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association. JCHLA / JABSC. 28: 19-22 (2007) ppt


Any time left?

Browser Extensions

Bookmarklets Add-On’s Toolbars Sidebars Search boxes

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