Web-Wide Application Customization : The Case of Mashups

Application development of is commonly a balancing of interests, as the question of what should actually be implemented is answered differently by different stakeholders. This paper considers mashups, which are a way of allowing an application to grow beyond the capabilities of the original develope...

Verfasser: Hagemann, Stephan
Vossen, Gottfried
FB/Einrichtung:European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS)
FB 04: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Dokumenttypen:Arbeitspapier
Medientypen:Text
Erscheinungsdatum:2010
Publikation in MIAMI:29.08.2012
Datum der letzten Änderung:25.11.2015
Reihe:Working Papers / ERCIS - European Research Center for Information Systems, Bd. 8
Angaben zur Ausgabe:[Electronic ed.]
Schlagwörter:Application customization; mashups; social tagging; meta-programming
Fachgebiet (DDC):004: Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
330: Wirtschaft
Lizenz:InC 1.0
Sprache:English
Format:PDF-Dokument
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-39359467862
Permalink:https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-39359467862
Onlinezugriff:ercis_wp_no_8.pdf

Application development of is commonly a balancing of interests, as the question of what should actually be implemented is answered differently by different stakeholders. This paper considers mashups, which are a way of allowing an application to grow beyond the capabilities of the original developers. First, it introduces several approaches to integrate mashups into the services, or Web pages, that they are based upon. These approaches commonly implement ways to determine which mashups are potentially relevant for display in a certain Web page context. One approach, ActiveTags, enables users to create reliable mashups based on tags, which effectively, leads to customized views of Web pages with tagged content. A scenario that demonstrates the potential benefits of this approach is presented. Second, a formalization of the approaches is presented which uses a relational analog to show their commonalities. The abstraction from implementation specifics opens the range of vision for fundamental capabilities and gives a clear picture of future work.