GET READY FOR MASHABILITY! Concepts for Web 2.0 Service Integration
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2008 |
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| Field | Informatics |
| Keywords | Web 2.0; Service Classification; Mashup; Business Models; License Agreements |
| Description | Mashups represent - beside the ease-of-use, high interactivity and social networking factors - another significant phenomenon of Web 2.0. However, this "mashing process" is mostly based upon ad-hoc approaches and techniques, rather than upon an in-depth analysis of the "mashing potential" of the services. Therefore, the first goal of this paper is to provide a conceptual foundation for the mashups - to identify services being typically integrated into mashups, and propose classification criteria forming a "Mash-Tree" that were subsequently applied to selected services - representatives of each classification category. We concentrate mainly on mashing of Web 2.0 services; integration in an enterprise environment is behind the scope of this paper. Secondly, the mashing potential is studied from three perspectives - technical aspects of mashability, business models for mashups, and potential legal issues concerning services themselves as well as the data in them. |
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