Calling All Mashups
I am going to be writing a paper on mashups for medical libraries. So I am interested in any medical/health related mashups and any library mashups. The holy grail for me would be for somebody to direct me to a medical library mashup.
For those of you unfamiliar with mashups.... Wikipedia defines a mashup as "a website or Web 2.0 application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new service." The most common mashups people often use (probably without even knowing they are using a mashup) are mapping mashups. Some examples of mashup maps are: U.S. Fast Food Map, and CraigsList Housing. However, mashups can be created for a variety of things such as Podbop , 4isbn, and BiblioPage.com (which I mentioned Aug. 7, 2006)
So please, if you know (or have created) any mashups that would be helpful in bio-medicine, medicine, health, libraries, or medical libraries. Please leave a comment or email me: mak1173[at] yahoo[dot]com .
2 Comments:
Hi Michelle.
The first one that comes to mind is BioWizard. I wrote a little about it here:
http://davidrothman.net/2006/08/09/biowizard-the-start-of-digg-for-medical-literature/
Also check out eBounce Description: http://www.programmableweb.com/url/3529
Site: http://ebounce.info/
Healthia Hospital Pricing is also a mashup.
Description: http://www.programmableweb.com/url/1135
Site: http://www.healthia.com/pricing/
Michelle
there weren't any health library-specific entries, but you might want to take a look at entries received for the recent Mashing up the Library competition (www.talis.com/tdn/competition).
All of the entries are listed at http://www.talis.com/tdn/forum/84
We have our winners for this time around, and shall be announcing them shortly.
Anyone bringing others to your attention might want to keep an eye on the competition site for some news on what comes next...
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