Week 8 – Mashups
Week 8 – Mashups
The final week of the course is mashups. Such fun!
I started by looking at Codex.Com, and found the DaVinci Code. I found it interesting that Vatican City (and other church locations) had several copies. I’m not sure how Codex.com would be used. I can’t imagine libraries having their online catalogs here.
I then explored the award winners list on Mashup Awards.com. I was intrigued by Twitter Answers , which offered real answers, by and for real people: http://www.mosio.com/twitter/ It’s a mashup of Twitter and Mosio. Most of the questions were, shall we say, not academic – and some of the answers were wrong, although later corrected. But it’s a very interesting concept, which might be applied to medical library reference, especially over long distance.
I then explored Programmable Web.com and selected Mashups Directory (almost 3000 entrees!). These mashups seemed more personal than those on Mashup.awards.com. I found Qlock under reference, and also found other interesting sites. TV Schedules is one the cheap husband should like. Librarian Chick was disappointing as it was for free materials more of interest to teachers. Geobirds.com is a very cool site for birders.
Then it was time to explore Rollyo.com. I searched for “librarianblogs”, then searched for privacy in this set. I found almost 10,000 results, much of which is junk – like links to PrivacyGuard.com. I discovered that I could select a specific Blog, and chose the KraftyLibrarian. I found excellent results. although even these were still laced with ads. Appropriately enough, her first Blog that mentions privacy is on mashups: http://kraftylibrarian.com/2006/11/brief-note-on-mashups.html
Finally, I set up a brief searchroll on women’s health on Rollyo, which features many of the sites we use regularly at work: http://rollyo.com/pvanhine/womens_health/
This was a great course! THANKS!
