2011 amia opensocial presentation
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Using OpenSocial to Leverage a Community of DevelopersTRANSCRIPT
Eric Meeks (UCSF)Leslie Yuan (UCSF)Griffin Weber (Harvard)Mini Kahlon (UCSF)
Using OpenSocial to Leverage a Community of Developers
• *Profiles Research Networking Software
What is OpenSocial?
• An Open Standard API for running applications on social web platforms.
What’s a social web platform?
• LinkedIn, Facebook, UCSF Profiles, Nature Network
SlideShare, WordPress Blogs, Farmville and Faculty Mentoring are examples of web applications or gadgets that run on these platforms
Why make our Research Networking Tools Web Platforms?
• Platforms rock. As a platform you can leverage a community of developers to build applications for your system independently and simultaneously.
• Delivering more features more quickly to our researchers will accelerate science.
Is OpenSocial a Good Way to Become a Web Platform?
“Don’t believe the hype” – Flavor Flav
Why OpenSocial is a Great Choice
Apache Shindig!
An Open Community forApplication Sharing
OpenSocial Gadget Library
UCSF
Profiles
Harvard
ProfilesLinkedIn iGoogle Stanford VIVO
Ned: Steve, are we allowed in here?Steve: It's a scientific community, man.
http://opengadgets.org
Next Steps
• Convince the enterprise community (which believes in OpenSocial) that RDF is a good thing.
• Convince the medical informatics community (which believes in RDF) that OpenSocial is a good thing.
• Grow the Open Research Networking Gadgets Community (ORNG)!
Thanks!
• Harvard Catalyst
• Andy Bowline (Wake Forest Medical Center)
• The Apache Shindig Team
• Andy Smith (IBM), Mark Weitzel (IBM) and the OpenSocial Foundation
• MIT & The Simile Project