Calling on Q: Library Applications of Mashups and Customized Search Engines

John Burke, Miami University Middletown
OPAL ‘007 – August 3, 2007 – Wilmington College

Mashups

What?: combining two sets of data to create a new web service

How?:

• APIs (application programming interface): http://www.programmableweb.com/apis
• Yahoo Pipes: http://pipes.yahoo.com
• CommunityWalk: http://www.communitywalk.com/

Where?:

• ProgrammableWeb: http://programmableweb.com
• Chicagocrime.org: http://www.chicagocrime.org
• BBC News Maps: http://benedictoneill.com/content/newsmap/
• Ohio Libraries News: http://tinyurl.com/2d95lk
• AP/BBC/WPR Combined News Feeds: http://tinyurl.com/3dq75g
• Find books in your library by color: http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/perl/colour.pl
• ILLs Received: http://www.communitywalk.com/map/41728
• Lewis & Clark Library System: http://www.lcls.org/members/findlibrary.aspx
• Miami University Libraries Locator: http://www.mid.muohio.edu/library/whereweare.cfm

Customized Search Engines (CSE)

What?: a do-it-yourself search engine, for which you choose the sites to include in the search

How?:

• Google Co-op: http://www.google.com/coop/cse
• Rollyo: http://www.rollyo.com

Where?:

• Consumer Health and Patient Education Information: http://davidrothman.net
• Library and Information Science Search Engine: http://liszen.com/
• Undergraduate Research Engine: http://tinyurl.com/yuqckd
• Academic Libraries Search: http://tinyurl.com/yuj2tl
• Belk Library Internet Resources: http://tinyurl.com/yvfglz
• Intellectual Property Search Engine: http://tinyurl.com/33u9st
• Ohio Academic Libraries Search: http://tinyurl.com/ytwxua
• Ohio Regional Campus Search: http://tinyurl.com/29yo3v
• Lib. Tech. Awareness Search: http://rollyo.com/johnburke/lib._tech._awareness/

Questions?

John Burke (burkejj@muohio.edu or 513-727-3293)