fire service current awareness services using yahoo pipes

InFire 2010 ConferenceCurrent Awareness Services for our Fire Service Stakeholders Using Yahoo Pipes

Edward Metz (MLIS, MA)Head Librarian

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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


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



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



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


Information sources – Fire and emergency service

RSS feeds• Copy the RSS feed url

from the browser bar


Information sources – News feeds - Google News, Yahoo

News


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Copy the Google RSS feed url from the browser bar


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


Filtering for best results – • Permit• Block


Sort by date in reverse chronological order


Start connecting the functions to create your pipe


Connect the sort function to output and click on the output module

To then see the results click on save and run pipe


Now everything is connected, we’ve selected source output and the Run this Pipe link


Now you can view your results or export them.


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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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