[Web4lib] mash-ups . enter Dapper

[C Lockwood]

Tomato Juice is nifty, Im guessing how it works.!

Also there is some discussion on various blog latelt, both enthusiatci and
dismissive on Dapper.
http://www.dappit.com/index.php

I think its awesome how they got a web service to automatically learn to
scrape a site for you!
I think it fits into the topic Eric post on Mash ups.

Check it out

see also
http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=315
"There is little doubt that Dapper is an impressive service. It has taken
the black art of scraping and made it into a simple, easy-to-use application
that just about anyone can pick up. Though it might take a few tries to
create a working Dapp, and certainly spending some time reading up on the
service is required, most will find it easy to use, especially when compared
to the alternatives"

On 9/1/06, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan at nd.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Mash-ups -- building Web pages by bringing together content from
> various other sites -- seems to be a definite trend, and I have been
> (slowly) working on my first mash-up called Tomato Juice:
>
>   http://infomotions.com/juice/
>
> Given one or more words the system will try to look up definitions,
> synonyms, encyclopedia articles, books (with cover art when
> available), pictures, and Web links related to the input. It does
> this by taking advantage of various (Amazon.com, Yahoo, dictionary,
> etc.) Web Services.
>
> The technique is probably something libraries not only want to
> implement but also facilitate. In other words, libraries will
> probably want to create mash-ups as types of Web pages they provide,
> but also allow for Web Services to be applied against library content
> so people outside libraries can create mash-ups.
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame
>
>
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