Fire Service Current Awareness Services Using Yahoo Pipes
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InFire 2010 ConferenceCurrent Awareness Services for our Fire Service Stakeholders Using Yahoo Pipes
Edward Metz (MLIS, MA)Head Librarian
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Tel: 301-447-1046email – edward.metz@dhs.gov
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Where is the value in providing a current awareness service?
1. Adds value to our web presence2. Who better than information
professionals should identify, organize and disseminate timely information of value to the fire service community?
3. There are some 1.3 million or more members of the fire service community in the United States. What better way to reach them than over the web with info they can trust and potentially use?
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes - Overview
Fire prevention community• Sprinklers • smoke alarms • Fire codes/inspections• Fire-safe cigarettes• CO detectors• Novelty/toy lighters • Campaigns/Fire prevention
efforts• Wildfire Safety• Campus fire safety• More fire safety news• International fire safety news
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes - Overview
Yahoo Pipes: Free web tool for mashing up
RSS feeds using a visual editor
Just need a Yahoo account Don’t have to necessarily
create from scratch. You can clone any publicly available Pipe and adapt it to your needs.
But its easy and fun to do on your own as well
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes - Overview
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes - Overview
Yahoo Pipes:
You can easily publish or export your Pipe output to the web
Getting started: Sign up for a yahoo
account if you don’t already have one
Check out the Yahoo Pipes tutorials
Identify a topic you want to monitor for your stakeholders
Identify or create information streams related to your topic
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes - Overview
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes - Overview
Yahoo Pipes:
What’s underneath the hood?
Canvas pane Library pane Debugger pane
Add modules to the canvas and connect them together to create your pipe
Bring in multiple streams of information into one single source• News searches (Google/Yahoo)• Journals/Magazine RSS feeds• Databases (Ebsco/Proquest/Gale
etc..)
Apply filters (e.g.keywords in title, date range)
Provides a single output stream that you can then monitor or repackage for distribution
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes – Info Sources
Information sources – Fire and emergency service RSS feeds
• Here’s one place to start
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes – Info Sources
Information sources – Fire and emergency service
RSS feeds• Copy the RSS feed url
from the browser bar
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes – Info Sources
Information sources – News feeds - Google News, Yahoo
News
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes – Info Sources
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Copy the Google RSS feed url from the browser bar
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes – Info Sources
As you identify or generate RSS feeds you’ll want to bring them into your new Pipe
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes
Fetch Feed Module
Add RSS feeds
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes
Filtering for best results – • Permit• Block
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes
Sort by date in reverse chronological order
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes
Start connecting the functions to create your pipe
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes
Connect the sort function to output and click on the output module
To then see the results click on save and run pipe
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes
Now everything is connected, we’ve selected source output and the Run this Pipe link
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes
Now you can view your results or export them.
Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes
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Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes
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Current Awareness ServicesRSS/Yahoo Pipes
More things you can do with Yahoo Pipes – map mashups
Here is an example of what I did with civilian fire casualties for September 2009
More you can do with PipesMap Mashups – RSS/Yahoo Pipes
You can export the KML file from Yahoo and import it into Google Maps
Here are the civilian fire casualties September 2009
More you can do with PipesMap Mashups – RSS/Yahoo Pipes
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