Ousia Weaver: A tool for creating and publishing mashups as impressive Web pages
Ikuya Yamada, Wataru Yamaki, Hirotaka Nakajima, Yoshiyasu Takefuji, Toshima Ward · 2010
is a technique which combines data and functionalities from multiple Web sources into new Web contents. Recently, software tools called mashup editors have attracted attention. These tools are typically targeted at non-expert users and allow them to create mashups without writing code. However, these tools tend to focus only on creating mashups and are lacking in publishing mashups. Therefore, if users want to publish results of mashups on the Web, they eventually have to do complex programming and/or settings. In this paper, we propose a novel mashup editor called Ousia Weaver. It provides a sophisticated visual editor which enables users to create mashups without writing code. It addresses not only on creating mashups, but also on publishing mashups. With the proposed tool users can visualize their mashup results by simply choosing desired visualization widgets from the list of the widgets. It also involves a simple Web server which automatically publicizes mashup results on the Web. Therefore, users can create impressive Web pages from mashup results without any complex programming and/or settings. This paper presents the programming model, the user interface, and the implementation of Ousia Weaver, and also provides two concrete examples in order to demonstrate its effectiveness.