Really simple mash-ups

  • Authors:
  • Yvonne Dittrich;Peter Madsen;Rune Rasmussen

  • Affiliations:
  • IT-University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen S, Denmark;IT-University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen S, Denmark;IT-University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen S, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • IS-EUD'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on End-user development
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Mash-ups are applications - typically web applications - designed by combining data from several web services into a new tool or expression. New mash-ups emerge every day. Different End-User Development environments for mash-ups are available. However, the identification of mashable webservices, their exploration and the definition of data aggregation from heterogeneous web services still requires familiarity with programming representations and environments. Can the provision and usage of mashable web-services become as easy as the provision and usage of RSS feeds? What is needed is (1) a web server that allows providers of mashable web services to define dataformats describing their interface and users of the same web services to identify mashable data sources and (2) a simple standard to annotate the result of web services so that mash-ups editors can support even non professional developers in pruning and aggregating the data according to their needs. The article presents our bid on how this vision can be realized.