1. What’s a Mashup & Why Would I Want One? April 17, 2007 Darlene Fichter Head, Indigenous Studies Portal University of Saskatchewan Library

3. Mashups  Definition(s)  Tour  Making a mashup  Technical and social issues

4. What is it?  A mashup is a web application that uses content from more than one source to create a new service –Content is typically sourced via an API* or a RSS Feed  Term comes from pop music  Cool new breed of application on the web *API - set of routines for accessing an application or service

5. frappr - people + Google Maps http://www.frappr.com/mashups

6. Strawberry Daiquiris

7. Stupidest Term Ever! You’re not mashing up or if you are you’ll get lumps. You should be creating flavorful California cuisine. Tom Reamy The science of scrumptious: why do we loathe lumpy food, pick at our plates, and believe that chocolate will cure all ills? They say there's no accounting for taste, but science is giving it a try Psychology TodayPsychology Today, Sept-Oct, 2003 Sept-Oct, 2003

8. IBM  "The Web 2.0 powered IBM Enterprise Mashup puts more capability into an individuals hands and gives them more freedom to innovate -- and because Web 2.0 technologies are based on open standards, integrating them into an open business model is easy for end users and developers alike," said Smith. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19821.wss

9. Today’s Playground http://www.flickr.com/photos/edyson/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/edyson/ (cc) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

10. (CC) Photo by Sebastien Prooth http://flickr.com/photos/sebastianprooth/315686462/

11. Yahoo Amazon Technorati EVDB Google Maps

12. Mashup Ecosystem  Open data  Open set of services  Small pieces loosely joined  You

13. Mashups and Web 2.0 Implications  Fastest growing ecosystems  Don’t have to get anybody’s approval to provide a new API to the Internet operating systems

14. DIY Programming  5 minute customization of applications –No longer the purvey of the techno elite

16. Created with http://maps.huge.info/zip.htm

17. Route Map for Deliveries http://www.lcls.org/members/routemap.aspx

19. Newsmap http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm USACanada

20. Newsmap  Reveals underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures  Uses Google News

21. Earthquake

22. Book Carousel http://www.cambridgelibraries.ca/hot/carousel.cfm

24. Frivolous Flickr Fun  Captioner! http://shadydentist.com/captioner  Colr Pickr http://krazydad.com/colrpickr Dozens of Flickr Toys: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/

25. Housing Maps http://www.housingmaps.com

28. Group Maps for Online Communities http://www.frappr.com/blogginglibrarians

30. LivePlasma & CNet Articles

33. McMaster Library – 5,000 aerial photos  Google mashup of aerial photo collection  Replaces print indexes  Browse on 2 dimensions: –Time –Space http://library.mcmaster.ca/maps/airphotos/Home.htm

34. Pittsburgh University Library  Yahoo Pipes  Scopus and Web of Sciences –Publications by their faculty –Output one RSS feed

35. Facts and Figures  1799 mashups (March 4, 2007)  3 new mashups / day Programmable Web – Mashup Dashboard http://www.programmableweb.com/mashups

36. Types of Mashups

37. Mashup Matrix

38. Typology of the Mashup  Presentation  Client-Side Data  Client-Side Software  Server-Side Software  Server-Side Data Dion Hinchcliffe, http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=49&tag=nl.e622

39. Where to Start  Point & click, & publish  “Cloning”  Just program it

40. Google My Map http://tinyurl.com/3e5xd9

41. APIs/Web Services Step 1 – Get an idea Step 2 – Sign up for a developer token http://aws.amazon.com/ http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ http://api.search.yahoo.com/webservices/register_application Step 3 – Read the fine print about use

42. CommunityWalk http://www.communitywalk.com/

43. People Listening to this Webcast Add yourself to the map http://www.frappr.com/mashups/

44. Other Map Builders  maps.google.comaps.google.com  www.yourgmap.com www.yourgmap.com  www.mapbuilder.net www.mapbuilder.net  www.platial.com www.platial.com

45. Learn from Others

46. Western springs history a joint project of the Thomas Ford Memorial Library and Western Springs Historical Society http://www.westernspringshistory.org/map/ http://www.westernspringshistory.org/map/ Local data: http://www.westernspringshistory.org/map/data.xmlhttp://www.westernspringshistory.org/map/data.xml APIs: Google Maps

48. data.xml

50. Try More Tools

51. Just Do It  lib-web-cats  Directory by Marshall Breeding

55. Step 1: Find lat/long for each library

56. Step 2: Create the map

57. http://www.talis.com/tdn/competition

58. Go-go Google Gadget! Popular New Books My Check-outs My Holds

59. And to Add This You Click

60. Customized Google Page

61. Technical Issues  In its infancy  Need a better registry for APIs  Scale and dependencies issues  How much to invest?

62. Social Issues  Intellectual property issues –“right to remix”  Provenance  Origin or source  Authority

63. Unintended consequences  Client side scripts that modify pages  All instances of Microsoft on any site are rewritten to say “the d*!?! Microsoft”

64. Find out more  Google Maps Mania http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/  Mashup Dashboard http://www.programmableweb.com/mashups

65. Thank You  Questions?  Email me darlene.fichter@usask.cadarlene.fichter@usask.ca  Comment on my blogmy blog