Mash Up

What is mashup?(In general)

A mixture or fusion of disparate elements.

What is MashUp(WEB)

1.    A mashup, in web development, is a web page, or web application, that uses content from more than one source to create a single new service displayed in a single graphical interface. For example, you could combine the addresses and photographs of your library branches with a Google map to create a map mashup.

 Types of MashUp(WEB)

-Consumer mashup 

-Enterprise mashup

-Data mashup

-Social

-Photo

-Video

-Travel

Examples of Enterprise MashUp(WEB)

    Poramio : a mash-up of Google Maps and geopositioned photographs of locations

  Hiking Outpost : a mash-up of Amazon and online hiking information resources

Flash Earth : a zoomable mash-up of Google Maps and Microsoft's Virtual Earth

 Diggdot : a mash-up of Digg, Slashdot and Delicious that integrates and filters content

  HousingMaps : a mash-up of Google Maps and Craigslist rental ads that displays geographical information for rental properties.

Web site examples of mash up sites

- Mash up site

-Web 2.0 Mashups

-Intellectual Property

-Mashup enabler

Characteristics of Mashup

•Combination

• Visualization

• Aggregation

Application programming interface (API) 

API is a specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to 
communicate with each other

Data API Types

• Indexed data 
• Cartographic and geographic data:
• Feeds, podcasts: 
• Data converters: 
• Communication
• Visual data rendering
• Security related

• Editors

Data Integration Challenges

• Text–data mismatch
• Object identity and separate schema
• Abstraction levels
• Data quality

4 Exmaples of URL:

1: http://cui.unige.ch/~dimarzo/courses/services/Lecture4.pdf

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid)

3 :http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/mash-up

4:http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/repurposed-inventions/5-web-mashups.htm