Intel®Mash Maker is an interactive tool that tracks what the user
is doing and tries to infer what information and visualizations they
might find useful for their current task. Mash Maker uses structured
data from existing web sites to create new “mashed up” interfaces
combining information from many sources.
The Intel®Mash Maker client is currently implemented as an extension
to the FireFox web browser. Mash Maker adds a toolbar
to the browser that shows buttons representing enhancements that
Mash Maker believes the user might want to apply to the current
page. An enhancement might combine the data on the page with
data from another source, or visualize data in a new way. Mash
Maker is intended to be an integral part of the way the user browses
information, rather than being a special tool that a user uses when
they want to create mashups.
In order to create mashups from normal websites, Mash Maker
must first extract structured data from them. If the web site does
not provide RDF data, then Mash Maker extracts structured data
from the raw HTML using a community-maintained database of
extractors, where each extractor describes how to extract structured
data from a particular kind of web site.
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