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Abstract
My book
Examples
Yahoo! Pipes demo
Photos from Flickr
Flickr API
Library APIs

experiments at OCLC
new book coming on library mashups

Zotero
Courses I've taught
Google docs examples
Mass Generation of Books, Videos, etc
To Learn More
Contact Info

Abstract

CARL-IT North: Mashup the Library workshop

Web 2.0 Mashups: Making the Web Your Own

The Web contains thousands of mashups that recombine everything including Google Maps, Flickr, Amazon.com, NASA, the New York Times, and Wikipedia with useful information about travel, finance, real estate, and more. By fusing elements from multiple web sites, mashups are often informative, useful, fun, and even transformative. This talk will show you about how to create and apply mashups to make sense of the web, especially in the context of libraries.

My book

My book blog: http://blog.mashupguide.net/ -- you'll find the complete text for my book, licensed under a CC license: http://blog.mashupguide.net/toc/

Examples

Yahoo! Pipes demo

Yahoo! Pipes: http://pipes.yahoo.com
International News - New York Times
RSS feed for the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/International.xml
Location Extractor Pipe: http://pipes.yahoo.com/raymondyee/locationextractor or
KML of NY Times International section or
KML displayed on a Google map: http://snurl.com/25s7o

Photos from Flickr

A tiny mashup that uses the Flickr API:

Other examples:

Flickr Sudoku
big list of Flickr mashups at Flickr Services
Motivator: Create your own customized motivational poster
Take a look at the projects that my student created in "Mixing and Remixing Information" 2008: Mixing and Remixing Information » Open House 2008.

Flickr API

Flickr Services.

To use the API, get a key. A key for this talk: 60db253feae793b32f612a3a1bcef5ad

Let's apply the API to photos to The Library of Congress' photostream.

A feed of recent photos:

http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=8623220@N02&lang=en-us&format=rss_200

flickr.people.getInfo

http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.people.getInfo&api_key=60db253feae793b32f612a3a1bcef5ad&user_id=8623220%40N02

user id for LC account is is 8623220@N02

http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=60db253feae793b32f612a3a1bcef5ad&user_id=8623220%40N02

Library APIs

1.htm Libraries mash up content, services and ideas by Tom Storey

By all means, experiment, but keep your patrons in mind. The article has a good caution:

Innovation isn’t what innovators do, it’s what customers adopt, he [Michael Schrage] says. “It’s not about new or better ideas. That’s delusional. If it ain’t adopted, it ain’t innovation. I think good ideas are tremendously overrated. If you come up with better ideas and your customers are not using them, with all due respect, you are not an innovator.”

a proposal to organize a mashed library conference in the UK for the fall.

The list of APIs that sprang from the discussion of a conference on Services/APIs/Systems/Technology/Data that we could use - mashed library has moved to a maintained list at Library Application Program Interfaces (APIs) | TechEssence.info

Let's look at some on the list -- and not on the list MelvylSystem - Raymond Yee's Wiki

experiments at OCLC

new book coming on library mashups

What I Learned Today… » Blog Archive » Library Mashup Book

Zotero

Courses I've taught

Google docs examples

Mass Generation of Books, Videos, etc

He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) - New York Times

To Learn More

http://programmableweb.com lists APIs and mashups that use these APIs. I contribute regularly to PW: Raymond Yee's articles on ProgrammableWeb

Contact Info

Raymond Yee (yee@berkeley.edu / raymondyee@mashupguide.net)