mashup

A. Mashup
Mashup is a web page or application that uses and combines data, presentation or functionality from two or more sources to create new services.

The term mashup is also used to describe a remix of digital data.

• Have an active role in the evolution of social software and Web 2.0
• Composition tools are usually simple enough to be used by end-users
• Support visual wiring of GUI widgets, services and components together.

B. Characteristics of Mashup

• Combination
• Visualization
• Aggregation

C. Types of Mashup

• Business (or enterprise) mashups

Apps that combine their own resources, application and data with other external Web services

• Consumer mashups

Combines data from multiple public sources in the browser and organizes it through a browser UI

• Data mashups

Combine similar types of media and information from multiple sources into a single representation.

D. Application programming interface (API)
API is a specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other

E. Data API Types

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

F. Mashup Enabler
Mashup Enabler is a tool for transforming incompatible IT resources into a form that allows them to be easily combined to create a mashup.
Example:
o Presto Mashup Connectors
o Convertigo Web Integrator
o Caspio Bridge

G. Data Integration Challenges

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