1. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Mashed Library “Oop North” 2009: Enthusiastic Amateurs and Overcoming Institutional Inertia Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath, UK UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat) Acceptable Use Policy Recording of this talk, taking photos, discussing the content using email, instant messaging, blogs, SMS, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised. Acceptable Use Policy Recording of this talk, taking photos, discussing the content using email, instant messaging, blogs, SMS, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised. Resources bookmarked using ‘ mashlib09 ' tag http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/mashed-library-2009/ Email: b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/briankelly/ Blog: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/

2. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 2 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!) Introduction

3. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 3 Mashups Are Exciting! Innovation Competition at IWMW 2008 attracted several good examples of mashups, including several from Mike Ellis

4. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 4 Mashups Are Exciting! Thumbnails of UK HEI Web pages, generated automatically using Thumbalizr (Note I did this manually in early days of Web)

5. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 5 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

6. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 6 Mashups Are Exciting! Google Earth view of UK Universities Why?

7. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 7 Mashups Are Exciting! Tony Hirst’s submission to IWMW 2008 innovation competition Note: Mashup (using RSS, Yahoo Pipes, & Dipity) Documentation on blog Display of effectiveness of media releases (how they are picked up by news & in blogosphere)

8. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 8 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

9. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 9 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

10. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 10 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!) D

11. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 11 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?

12. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 12 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?

13. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 13 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)

14. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 14 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?

15. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 15 Critical Friends Remember, though, that developers may get it wrong! Acting as a Critical Friend may be helpful

16. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 16 Questions?