Week 5: RSS and Mashups
February 20 - 26
Learning Objectives
By the end of the week, you should:
1. Identify strategies for getting patrons to use RSS feeds from the library.
2. Understand what a mashup is and how libraries can use mashups.
3. Know how to create a simple mashup.
Lecture
No lecture this week since we'll be having an Elluminate session.
Readings
Required
Rothman, D. (2006). “Recap: My notes on RSS for Clinicians.” DavidRothman.net.
King, David Lee. (2005). “Creating a Personalized 'My Library' page with no sweat.” davidleeking.com.
van den Brekel, G. (2007). "What if the Library Would Offer You PennVibes?" DigiCMB.
(2007). "Top 5 Personalized Start Pages." Pandia.
Merrill, D. (2006). “Mashups: The new breed of web app.” IBM.
Mills, E. “Mapping a Revolution with 'Mashups.'” Cnet.
Blyberg, J. (2006). “Tasteful Mashups or Spoiled Mojo.” blyberg.net.
Vielmetti, E. “Mashups: What happened?” Superpatron.
Optional
“The Library 2.0 Mashup Gang” (podcast).
Examples
Library Start Page
Dublin City Public Libraries
University Medical Center Groningen (work in progress)
Check out the entries in Talis' Mashing Up the Library Competition.
Browse the Programmable Web site to see some interesting mashups.
Browse through some of the Google Map mashups at Google Maps Mania.
Browse through some of the mashups at Yahoo! Pipes.
Things to Do
1. Complete Exercise 3 (due February 26)
2. Write a post describing how you think mashups and personalized start pages could be used in your setting or the setting you're interested in.
3. Comment on at least two other people's blog posts.
4. Bookmark three additional resources about RSS or mashups and tag them libr246-13.
5. Mandatory Elluminate session, February 26 6:30-8:00 pm PT.
