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NeSC Web 2.0 Workshop, March 2009, Edinburgh
Overview
Practical Web 2.0 – Workshop 1
A Hands On Journey Into Mashups
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Introduction
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Architecture
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Examples
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Workshop 1
Mark Borkum - m.i.borkum@soton.ac.uk
Jiten Bhagat - jits@cs.man.ac.uk
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What is a Mashup?
An interpretation?
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A presentation?
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A new service?
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An application?
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A “blending” of data from multiple sources
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Added value
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Location
(coordinates)
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“Mashup” View Controller
World Climate
http://www.climate-charts.com
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Model
No entities! Just raw data.
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Mashups are not meshups!
The model is an interpretation of the data
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Model
Where does the data come
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Public
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Screen scraping
Web services
Syndication
The Long Tail (your users)
Protected
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ProgrammableWeb.com
lists over 1000 APIs
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Authentication may be required
(HTTP-Basic, OAuth, PKI…)
Fair usage restrictions
Private
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Publish and reuse your data!
Database
Institutional Repository
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View
User Interface
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Provide a Machine Interface (when you can)
Web browser
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Content Type Negotiation
Perpetual Beta
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Syndication (RSS, ATOM)
REST
Web Services (SOAP)
XML-XPC
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Open Standards
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Mark-up (XHTML)
Presentation (CSS, XSLT)
Manipulation (DOM)
Communication (XMLHttpRequest)
Scripting Languages (ECMAScript)
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Controller
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Interacts with the model
Responds to events
triggered by the view
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Application Logic is smaller
Glue Logic is configured as
a façade to Data Sources
Adapters are reusable
software components
Data sources are secured
with dependable wrappers
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Use open standards
Provide a machine interface
Controller:
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No entities! Just raw data.
View:
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Advantages:
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Model:
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Delegate work to the
“Glue” Logic
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Summary
Application Logic
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Clients specify the response format
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Delegate work to reusable components
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TwitterVision
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Data Sources
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Twitter user profiles
Twitter “Public Timeline” feed
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Google Maps API
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New Services
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Geographical view of new “tweets”
TwitterVision REST API
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TwitterVision
http://www.twittervision.com
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http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.atom
http://twittervision.com/api.html
Get user location (public)
Update user location (protected, uses HTTP-Basic
authentication)
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NYU School of Medicine Virtual Microscope
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Data Sources
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Database of slides from 2 microscopes
Glue Logic
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Delegates work to the Google Maps API
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New Services
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NYU School of Medicine Virtual Microscope
http://informatics.med.nyu.edu/virtualmicroscop
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Programmable Web
http://www.programmableweb.com
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Display (stitching together multiple tiles into a complete image)
Navigation (zooming in and out)
Annotation
Virtual gallery of high-resolution slides (with annotations)
Collaborative filtering
Tag Cloud
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http://informatics.med.nyu.edu/virtualmicroscope/tagcloud
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iGoogle
http://www.google.com/ig
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Google
Gadgets
API
“Latest Workflows Feed Reader”
Workshop 1:
“myExperiment Latest Workflows Feed Reader”
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Architecture
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/03/1
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funny-pictures-i-dont-give-a-meow/
Workshop 1
WORKSHOP II on Friday
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/
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http://www.imdb.com/media/rm110467328/tt0079817
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