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
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A little about a lot
What is a Mashup? Health Mashups Library Mashups What would you Mashup if you could?
Browser Extensions, … Disussion
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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
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Ingredients for a mashup
Public InterfaceAPI (application programming
interface) RSS feed
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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
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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/
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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."
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Search Mashups?
Alternative PubMed Searches: http://www.gopubmed.org/PubReMiner |MorphoSaurus
Google Custom Search Mahaloo Mysyndicaat Livetrix : federated search, stats &
semantics
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What would you like to Mashup?
Search tools (easier, faster & better) Find, availability, stats, Relevance,
also View, Reviews, Rate Catalogues, Repositories, Web
Resources, etc …?
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An Introduction Into Mashups for Health Librarians / Allan ChoJournal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association. JCHLA / JABSC. 28: 19-22 (2007) ppt
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Any time left?
Browser Extensions
Bookmarklets Add-On’s Toolbars Sidebars Search boxes