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Mashed Library “Oop North” 2009:
Enthusiastic Amateurs and
Overcoming Institutional Inertia
Brian Kelly
UKOLN
University of Bath
Bath, UK
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Introduction
About Me
Brian Kelly:
• National Web adviser to UK Universities
and cultural heritage organisations
• Based at UKOLN, a national centre of
expertise in digital information
management and located at the University
of Bath
• Involved in Web since January 1993
• Current area of interest include Web 2.0,
Web standards and Web accessibility
• Not a developer (though used to write
Algol, Fortran, Basic and Cobol!)
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Mashups Are Exciting!
Innovation
Competition at
IWMW 2008
attracted
several good
examples of
mashups,
including
several from
Mike Ellis
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Mashups Are Exciting!
Thumbnails of
UK HEI Web
pages,
generated
automatically
using
Thumbalizr
(Note I did this
manually in
early days of
Web)
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Mashups Are Exciting!
Google Custom
Search Engine
(GCSE) of UK
University sites
“Why? I dunno
either?”
Joke at my
Scottish HEI
GCSE page 
Note JISC
proposal for this
in late 1990s
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Mashups Are Exciting!
Google Earth
view of UK
Universities
Why?
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Mashups Are Exciting!
Display of effectiveness of media
releases (how they are picked up by
news &A centre
in blogosphere)
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Tony Hirst’s
submission to
IWMW 2008
innovation
competition
Note:
• Mashup (using
RSS, Yahoo
Pipes, &
Dipity)
• Documentation
on blog
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Documenting The Mashups
Tony Hirst’s blog post
about his IWMW 2008
submission includes
documentation of what he
did and screen shots of
tools used
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Bring Down The Government!
Tony Hirst has written
(& documented)
multiple mashup
examples making use
of public sector data
(e.g. Guardian APIs):
• Formula 1 data
• MPs expenses
• …
Note interview in
journalism.co.uk
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What About You?
Some questions:
• Will your mashup expertise thrive after
today?
• What should be different after today?
• What barriers do you envisage?
• Will you be able to demonstrate value for
attending ‘Mash Oop North’? (cf evidence
for MP’s expenses!)
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Advocacy
Your convinced (to some extent) of:
• The value of data reuse
• The benefits of light-weigh development
• …
You can:
• Promote this to senior managers
• Encourage these approaches by your
developers
• …
What else?
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Encouraging Greater Openness
You’re convinced (to some extent) of allowing
others to access your data & reuse of other’s
data
You can:
• Minimise legal barriers to reuse of your
data (e.g. CC0 & PDDL licences)
• Use reusable formats (e.g. XML, not PDF)
• Encourage a risk management attitude for
your developers e.g. Oppenheim formula:
R=AxBxCxD
What else?
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Providing Documentation
You’ve a great mashup
service – but developer
leaves (dies):
• “Did he say anything
about the source
code?
• “Anyone know if
there’s any
documentation”
How about encouraging
open documentation
e.g. using a blog (open
to peer review)
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Sharing Experiences
Some additional thoughts:
• Sharing experiences
• Allowing and permitting
• Engaging with others (peers, users, policy
makers, …)
• Driving down costs (e.g. negotiations with
vendors)
What else?
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Critical Friends
Remember, though, that developers may get it
wrong!
Acting as a Critical Friend may be helpful
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Questions?
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