AT Innovation Contest

Tufts Courses (E10)

2008-12-15T14:37:50Z

Details:
This widget uses 3 yahoo pipes, one to get general course information by term and department, it then uses a 2nd pipe to get the course description and the full course title instead of the abbreviated title used in student services listing and then replaces the title where appropriate. Finally, although incomplete, it uses a third pipe to gather comments about the course from Twitter. I had planned to allow you to post your comments in the catalog as well but ran out of time. It also uses a Zembly service (they're equivalent to pipes) to proxy data because the student services website inexplicably disallows all HTTP traffic and will only let you get data by POST request, neither of these 2 things current work in Yahoo Pipes. For the UI, I'm using Zembly, and lots of JQuery. The data seems more valuable then the widget you could use the data to post dept listings on dept websites or filter it even more and let professors list what they're teaching on their websites through the feed. Finally, it takes so long to assemble all the data in pipes that Zembly occasionally times out, I tried to do it in multiple service calls but Zembly had a bug that prevented that.

Tufts DL Image Search Box (E09)

2008-12-15T14:28:40Z

Details:
This Zembly widget provides a convenient way for searching the image repository of the Tufts Digital Library. The search results from the digital library are scraped by Dapper and reformatted through Yahoo Pipes into an RSS feed which is then translated to HTML by the Zembly widget.

Rising Tufts Search Terms (E08)

2008-12-12T20:16:31Z

Details:
The widget lists all the search terms that are become popular on google. It uses yahoo widget to parse through the stats provided on google insights.

Tufts Searches (E07)

2008-12-12T20:13:07Z

Details:
The widget lists all the search terms used along with "tufts" on google. It uses yahoo widget to parse through the stats provided on google insights.

Jumbos All Around Us (E06)

2008-12-11T22:33:16Z

Details:
A proof of concept with many rough edges, rather than a completed design, but this "Jumbos All Around Us" sprout (http://sproutbuilder.com/) could eventually aggregate searches on "Tufts University" on Flickr & YouTube with the Tufts News Office (or other Google News search) feed.

TuftsLife Announcements (E05)

2008-12-11T16:11:22Z

Details: A widget that embeds a feed of announcements from the TuftsLife site. Used Feedity.com to create both the feed and the widget because it proved easier than wotzwot.com/zembly.

Tufts Images Slider (E04)

2008-12-02T21:36:37Z

Details: This uses a tool called Flickr Slidr (http://flickrslidr.com/index.php) to create an embeddable javascript image slideshow. This particular instance searches Flickr for all photos that include the term “Tufts University” in their title or description.

Tufts Photos (E03)

2008-12-02T21:31:37Z

Description:
* The widgets takes pictures from flicker that have been tagged with 'tufts university' and creates a slideshow.
* built in zembly

Tufts OCW Courses and OER Listings (E02)

2008-12-01T14:12:45Z

Process and elements:
* used Dapper to create RSS feeds for Tufts OCW course listings and for Tufts OER listings
* used Pipes to create an aggregate feed of MERLOT Tufts-related resources, Tufts OCW courses, and Tufts OER listings
* used SproutBuilder to create the widget, including background image from the Tufts Digital Library -- 1860 photo of the keys to Ballou

Google News hits relating to Tufts University (E01)

2008-11-26T20:18:20Z

Details:

1. it uses Google News to get an RSS feed of news hits containing the phrase “Tufts University”, sorted by date (latest first),
2. Yahoo Pipes is then used to make sure that only one feed item per news link is shown.
3. The Pipe id is then used in Zembly.com’s news ticker widget.