Patrick hochstenbach mobilize u gent

Mobilize UGent Patrick Hochstenbach @hochstenbachDigital Architect, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent ABC van mobiele dienstverlening, Turnhout

Part I - The Numbers

Internet StatsFacebook Google Twitter 0,5% 2010 1.0% 2012 2.2% 2012 BiblioWorldCat EBSCO UGent

Mother of All Markets

Exponential Growth

Huge Market• Mobiles > Cars + PC’s + TV’s combined• Revenue SMS > Hollywood • Box Office + DVD Sales + Music Industry + Video Games• Smart Phones, Kindle, Tablet, MP3, Car Electronics, Mobile Video, Wireless Home Appliances, Smart Fabrics

Increasing capabilities1998 2002 2006 2007 2010+? Video Tablet Camera EmailPDA Web Television Games Music 3D Touch GPS Apps Transflective Colors

2010 worldwide statistics 2010 Q2 worldwide mobile sales 2010 Q2 smart phone martket19% of mobile market = smart phones 2010 web statistics 31% of smart phones = 88% Android or iPhone Android or iPhone 9% of mobiles sold in 2010 is driving the mobile internet

University statisticsUC Davis 2009 TU Delft 2010 UGent 2011 43% surf the web 37% surf the web - 88% read email - 90% websites - 55% read email - 72% read books/articles - 65% websites - 35% read books/articles

UGent Platform

Where are they? Enrico Fermi - 1950

Part II - Implementation Details

What• SMS?• Mobile Website?• Mobile Web Widgets?• Mobile Web Apps?• Native Apps?• Game?

Options• DIY• Stand on shoulders of others: • Aleph - Aleph Mobile OPAC by Daniel Forsman • Primo - Ex Libris • Metalib - Xerxes by Davisd Walker • Generic - Boopsie Inc

Aleph Mobile

2010 UvA Aleph Mobile

Xerxes

2009 UGent DIY

2009 UGent DIY• Mobile web = absolute developer fun!• Issues in 2009: • Mobile Web != Desktop Web (maybe this will change?) • Still a bit Wild West: new practices, quirks and workarounds • Libraries reinvent iPhone / Android look & feel but what about older Nokia, Sony Ericsson, BlackBerry?• What about: telephone, GPS, video, camera, tilt/touch sensors, 3D, app integration (agenda, etc)? Will HTML5 specs keep up with new hardware capabilities?

Boopsie

2010 Boopsie• http://www.boopsie.com• Hybrid Application: Native + HTML code• iPhone, Android,BlackBerry,WinMobile,...• MARC Dumps/Z39.50• Aleph 500 integration• Word/Excel to define menu’s

Main menu...

GPS-powered library search...

Incremental search... SMS like search, show results while you type...

Brief and long views...

Hold request... Here we reused an in-house developed web application... Boopsie supports ALEPH hold requests

RSS Feeds..

UGent Library tweets...

Creating submenu’s: list of mobile enabled databases

Admin interface

TOC (sub) Menus

TOC in vanilla interface

Reading list

Reading list in vanilla interface

Results• 4 months, 3 persons: • 2 system librarians : 2 x 0.1 FTE • 1project manager: 1 x 0.1 FTE• Costs: ~ 4 weeks paying a programmer• Some work to synchronize library addresses (250). Setup the hold request link. Testing on iPhone, HTC and Nokia.• More work in color schemes to use, icons, etc...

Acknowledgements• Frank Vandepitte - UGent Library• Paul Bastijns - UGent Library• Omar Reygaert - UGent Library• Gary Fletcher - Boopsie Inc• Lukas Koster - University of Amsterdam

• Sources Report” MorganStanley “The Mobile Internet http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/mobile_internet_report122009.html• Gartner News http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1421013• Student Smart Phone Survey - Winter 2009 http://clm.ucdavis.edu/pubs/survey/student-w09-2.html• TU Delft Mobile Survey Results http://www.slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg/tu-delft-mobile-survey-results• The Mobile Internet is Bigger Than You Think http://www.slideshare.net/grigs/the-mobile-internet-is-bigger-than-you-think

Sources• UBA Mobile http://www.slideshare.net/lukask/uba-mobile-igelu-2010

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