Mobile Web Apps for Library Exhibits

Mobile Web Apps for Library Exhibits Cory Lown NCSU Libraries Code4Lib 2011 February 2011http://go.ncsu.edu/4hexhibit

Opportunity •! Increased power and popularity of mobile devices •! Digital special collections are now easier to repurpose and reuse (Thank you Solr & Djatoka image server)http://go.ncsu.edu/4hexhibit

Project Goals •! Establish a set of tools for creating mobile web applications to supplement temporary exhibits in the library •! Keep development time/cost low •! Make use of existing digital special collections contenthttp://go.ncsu.edu/4hexhibit

4-H & NC State Exhibit with mobile supplementhttp://go.ncsu.edu/4hexhibit

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Tools we used•! Web App: •! Ruby on Rails•! Data: •! Solr index of image metadata•! The user interface: •! jQuery Mobile – lightly customized css

Tools we used•! Serve images from Djatoka Image Server: •! 1st request: served on the fly by Djatoka (any size and crop) and cached locally by rails (slow) •! 2nd request: Apache serves image cached by rails (fast)

Lessons learned•! Exhibit designer hand selected the images for the mobile supplement.•! jQuery Mobile and Djatoka are very useful

Future plans•! Package rails app as an engine gem for re-use for future mobile supplements to exhibits•! Build an admin interface so exhibit designer can manage themes and associated images

Thanks!Cory LownDigital Technologies Development LibrarianNCSU Librariescory_lown@ncsu.eduThe mobile site:http://go.ncsu.edu/4hexhibitAbout the project:http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/mobileexhibits/

Mobile Web Apps for Library Exhibits

by Cory Lown on Feb 10, 2011

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