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Data Mashups
Special Issue Information
The term 'mashup' refers to Web sites or services that weave data from different sources into a new data source or service. Mashups are becoming increasingly widespread, e.g., in the context of combining geographic and geo-tagged data about health-related issues or some disease and displaying such integrated data on Web maps.
Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Ph.D.
Guest Editor
- Related Paper from the Guest Editor: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2491600
Keywords
- data mashups
- data aggregation and integration
- application interfaces, API\'s
- web services
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