CMS Assignment 2

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:

• Presto Mashup Connectors
• Convertigo Web Integrator
• Caspio Bridge

G. Data Integration Challenges

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