This one's for @ghostchicken
Www.soutron.com
Practical side to tying together technologies
Make the user community more in content, with partners outside the norm
Library system as repository, physical and electronic material
Mashing Libraries - O Stephens (Consultant and OU)
Mashup stems from music, for libraries means combining (digital) forms of information
Look for 'Scary Mary Poppins' YouTube
Mashing information
Much Info has geographic facet
Early Eg: taking info from google maps and craigslist, not affiliated to either
National mapping agencies making more data public, eg uk ordnance survey.
Data.gov.uk provide catalogue of info and more raw data
Suitable format and licensing are key to being able to re-use
Eg, local authority Warwickshire libraries new releases, ran competition for developers to build apps - one was taking 'new books' given creative commons licence, given digital look, tie into amazon and google preview. Provides extra info to users.
Another example was young people creating Facebook for library, aimed at other young people
How to Mash, putting Warwickshire Libraries on the Map
yahoo pipes - worksheet for piping data in certain way
Taking XML and re-presenting data in different ways
Used in Warwickshire to create map of libraries
Need to attend a Mashup event!
See www.mashedlibrary.com and wiki
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Thanks for blogging the session - if you are interested in any more detail on the example I used of creating a map of libraries in Warwickshire I did a blog post http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2010/04/putting-warwickshire-libraries-on-the-map/
ReplyDeletecool, thanks Owen.
ReplyDeleteI need to attend a Mashup event, have some ideas but need technical expertise to make them happen!