Website Mashup

Karen A. CoombsRachel VacekUniversity of Houston Libraries

Mashing Up and Remixing the Library Website

The problems

• Information on the library website is maintained by a disparate group of people with varying skill levels

• Library websites incorporate (or should) information from many different systems

• Same information repeated several places throughout the library website

• Users want library information at their finger tips and where they are

• Library information should be integrated the curriculum

Traditional Solutions

• Use database-driven web pages

• Install a content management system

• Distribute responsibility for content creation and maintenance throughout the library

• Make other library systems look as much like library site as possible

The Road not Taken

• Easy to use system; little Web Services interference in content creation

• Remixable blocks of content, objects, metadata

• Ability to incorporate content from other systems easily

• Website content easily sharable with other systems

Photo by John Linwood @ Flickr

Our Inspirations

Web 2.0 Six Pillars

•Radical Decentralization

•Small pieces loosely joined

•Perpetual beta

•Remixable Content

•User as Contributor

•Rich User Experience

Photo by steve.wilde @ Flickr

Radical Decentralization

Map of the Internet, The Opte Project, www.opte.org

Decentralization of Content Management

Content Owners Control Their Pages

Small pieces loosely joined

Photo by wilhei55 @ Flickr

Different Systems for Different Functions

Modules

Feed Module

Remixable content

wilhei55

Photo by cv47al @ Flickr

Microformats

Tutorials

API for Library Website

• Object Metadata

• Leverage existing metadata standards

• Dublin Core, MODS, METS, MIX

• Search

• Open Search

• Output formats

• XML

• Atom

• RSS

• JSON

• HTML

Virtual Subject Library

• Federated Search

• New Books from Catalog

• List of Relevant Databases

• Subject Liaison Contact Information

• News Feed from Relevant Professional Associations or Websites

• Relevant Websites

Next Steps

• Complete the API

• Complete functionality to add media to pages

• Integrated WorldCat API

• Personalization

• User contributed content

• Integrate with other library systems

• Digital Library Software

• Better integration with federated search

Our Contact Info

Karen Coombslibrarywebchic@gmail.com

Rachel Vacekrevacek@gmail.com

Slides available at -http://www.librarywebchic.net/218/websitemashup