So I thought I’d spice up my blog this week by giving Yahoo! Pipes a shot and dazzling everyone (and myself) with my pipe building skills.
No such luck.
It’s a fair bit more difficult than I anticipated (though Amanda did warn us of that) AND as it turns out most of my ideas weren’t as original as I thought.
Idea 1:
A pipe that aggregates LIS job postings in Canada. So easy, I thought. Well, it’s not so easy when most of the sites that list the postings don’t have RSS feeds (and, yes, this includes the FIMS site). And it seems that there are ways around this but I’m not pro enough to figure that out, and my attempts to clone and edit other pipes was just disastrous.
Some pipes to have a peek at:
Library Jobs
Job LibSearch
Canadian Library Jobs
UofT LIS Student Career Services
Idea 2:
A pipe that combines a number of the feeds from Library Journal. But then that seemed too boring so I didn’t pursue it…
Pipes to peek:
Reviews from Library Journal
Budget stories from Library Journal
LJ Feeds
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The following ideas may or may not be mashup-able…
Idea 3:
I haven’t checked out Zip.ca in a while so I don’t know if Zip lists have RSS feeds, but if they did, I’d like to be able to have corresponding links to Amazon.ca to see how much the film ‘retails’ for, or maybe even links to the TPL’s OPAC so I can see if the film is available locally (and for free!).
Idea 4:
IMDB meets TPL’s OPAC! I know that some libraries are now including film synopses in the bibliographic details but if they aren’t wouldn’t it be nice to have a link to the IMDB summary (and additional info) right there?!