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Udell has also worked on another type of mashup between Amazon and a local library:
a service that checks your Amazon wish list in order to receive notifications about availability
in a Keene, NH library (Udell??™s local libraries).14 This service awaits generalizations for multiple
OPACs and multiple libraries.
11. http://www.worldcat.org/affiliate/webservices/xisbn/app.jsp
12. http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/01/30.html
13. http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/04/23/greasemonkeying-with-ie/
14. http://elmcity.info/services
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Comparable Mashups
BookBurro, in the form of either a Firefox extension or a Greasemonkey script, displays the
price of a corresponding book as a pop-up window.15
LibraryThing is ???an online service to help people catalog their books easily.???16 It is much
more than a typical mashup but has elements that are mashup-like??”including the thingISBN
API17 described in the following way:
Today I??™m releasing thingISBN, LibraryThing??™s ???answer??? to xISBN. Under the hood,
xISBN is a test of FRBR, a highly developed, well-thought-out way for librarians to
model bibliographic relationships. By contrast, thingISBN is based on LibraryThing??™s
???everyone a librarian??? idea of bibliographic modeling.Users ???combine??? works as they see
fit. If they make amistake, other users can ???separate??? them.
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