Kum-Bai-Yahoo! Pipes

TCLC Summer Camp

July 14, 2008

Lianne Hartman, Reference/Instruction Librarian

program visually

create mash-ups

customize

Why ?

rssfeed

FlickrPhotos

map

searchterm

sourcecode

sources

mapsearchterm +

(this is not a pipe)

Laurenatclemson

One feed

Multiple journals

Journal alerts

for faculty & staff

let people choose, or create “bundles” of feeds

automatic, paper-free journal routing

discovery of new journals & information sources

filtering

Justin Ruckman

Keep out things we don’t want

I love berries

Pick out things we do want

The Wong Family Pictures

filtering & rss• Feed of your favorite writer

• Feed of a specific topic– Accounting in the Wall Street Journal

– Libraries in the Chronicle

• Filter out tables of contents, letters, or other parts of journal feeds

Laurenatclemson

Anatomy of a URLAnatomy of a URL

http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/search/

sss?query=bookcase&format=rss

http:// philadelphia.craigslist.org /search/

protocol domain name sub-directory

Key-Value Pairs(query parameters)

.org/search/sss?query=bookcase&format=rss

bookcase

rss

query

format

?

&

=

=

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Laurenatclemson

Non-Persistent

http://sirsi.gmc.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/Pz05Ufu5Gu/x/42570005/5/0

Persistent URL (PURL)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49824695&

referer=brief_results

Paste Your Own

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (LZW) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Dey

rssfeed

FlickrPhotos

map

searchterm

sourcecode

sources

Data Types

StructuredRSS

Title

Link

Description

Wolfgang Staudt

Messy Data

malweth

<tr> <td class="itemlisting2" colspan="2" align="right"> <!-- ebook, enrichment images, URL, DMA images/links --> &nbsp;

<!-- ibistro configured with content --> <!-- URL-type tag --> <!-- not a BWI ebook --> <!-- netLibrary not used or ignored --> <a href="javascript:open_win('http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2007000064.html')"> <img src="/WebCat_Images/English/Special/Link/URL2.gif" alt="Visit new.html" <!-- netLibrary not used --> <!-- not BWI ebook -->

</td> </tr></table> <!-- This evaulates the hitlist number (DC="WD") to be even or odd, and assigns

<!-- dynamic content lookup -->

<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="itemlisting" width="10%" rowspan="3"> <!-- hitlist number -->

<strong>#4</strong> <!-- full details --> <input type="submit" value="Details" name="VIEW^4" id="VIEW4" class="itemdetails">

Laurenatclemson

http://tclclibs.org/camp08/pipesLianneah@gmail.com

Thanks!

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