Towards communities of practice for mashups

  • Authors:
  • Leif Singer

  • Affiliations:
  • Leibniz Universität Hannover, Welfengarten, Hannover, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd and 4th International Workshop on Web APIs and Services Mashups
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Many integration projects in enterprises are too small to warrant their own implementation by IT. This leaves a "long tail of enterprise integration" unaccounted for. To exploit this potential, this position paper proposes a Community of Practice for end user development whose members will be able to solve their integration needs on their own. In particular, we want to combine a spreadsheet-oriented, browser-based mashup tool with a social network site designed as a company-internal collaboration platform. This should permit many small local integration projects to be performed by end users. Employee needs that were too expensive to consider before would then be satisfiable.