UBA mobile - IGeLU 2010

UBA Mobile Lukas Koster [email_address] http://twitter.com/lukask Roxana Popista şu [email_address] IGeLU 2010 Gent

UBA Mobile web app http ://m.uba.uva.nl

UBA Mobile – principles 1
Web access any time anywhere
Location awareness
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simona_/4068354970/

No local apps for iPhone, Android, Blackberry…
1 web app
Optimised for mobile devices
Native look and feel

No full blown project
Agile development
Quick wins
Perpetual beta
Quick releases
Fast feedback loop
Identify next set of requirements
Mistakes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finishing-school/2537394590/

UBA Mobile – First cycle
1st team meeting: February 10, 2010
1st quick release: April 1, 2010
7 weeks!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/designwallah/2662640621/

UBA Mobile Quick Release 1 – April 1, 2010
UvA Catalogue
Library tweets
Opening hours
Address information
Questions, feedback
Contact phone numbers
Locations

UBA Mobile next releases
Today and tomorrow
Computer availability
Location aware delivery
Location aware directions
Library news
New acquisitions
Database list
MetaSearch
Full text linker
Refworks link
Pay services
… more…

More info
http://commonplace.net/2010/03/mobile-library-services/
http://www.delicious.com/lukask/mobile
Book Chapter “ Catalogue 2.0 ” (november 2010)

UBA Mobile – Team and feedback
Alice Doek
Driek Heesakkers
Gré Ootjers
Lukas Koster
Roxana Popista şu
Feedback:

Mobile Aleph OPAC “ Someone outside your organization will always have a better idea than you…” Kristin Olofsson: To be open (ELAG 2010)
Based on Julia mobile ( Jönköping University Library )
EL Commons CodeShare

Mobile Aleph OPAC - Characteristics
One web-app for all devices
Stripped down version of Aleph UI
New “language” interface

Customized configuration tables
Login page & user settings
More native “look-and-feel”
Bi-lingual mobile version
Mobile Aleph OPAC - Challenges

Mobile Aleph OPAC & QR codes
QR code = “like a barcode, only cooler”
QR codes in the OPAC
Google API’s
Special URL for the mobile OPAC
http://opc.uva.nl/QR/002228814/Darwin_literature_and_Victorian_ respect_Dawson_Gowan
Twestival Montreal Cupcakes

Mobile Aleph OPAC & QR codes QR code reader

Mobile Aleph OPAC – future ideas
Location aware delivery
Refworks link
New acquisitions

It doesn’t matter how good your product is if nobody knows about it. Remember to market it!
Mobile Aleph OPAC – Marketing!

Mobile MetaLib
What?
How?
Agile!
How?
What?
Steal, uhhh, “re-use” Who cares, uhhh, “ask our users”

MetaLib Mobile – How?

MetaLib Mobile – How? http://m.library.curtin.edu.au/

MetaLib Mobile – How? http://xerxes.calstate.edu/demo/

MetaLib Mobile – How? http://www.lib.umn.edu/mobile/

MetaLib Mobile – How?
Library University of Minnesota – Mobile
PHP
MetaLib X-Server
JavaScript (Jquery)
CSS stylesheet
http://m.uba.uva.nl/ UVA web Aleph Library Services MetaLib UBA Mobile Mobile OPAC Mobile Metalib X-Server PHP CSS JS HTML CSS JS

MetaLib Mobile – How?  What? http://digitaal.uba.uva.nl

MetaLib Mobile – How?  What?

MetaLib Mobile – How?  What?
UMN uses
OpenUrl field in X-Server
Selects “journal” field (=articles only)
Presents OpenUrl fields
Links to SFX

MetaLib Mobile – What? MetaLib results Abstract Journal articles QuickSet

MetaLib Mobile – What?
Problem with
UvA OPAC
Other databases

MetaLib Mobile – What?
What to search?
One search?
Quicksets?
Categories?
Maybe PrimoCentral only?
What to get?
Fulltext?
Metadata for later use?
MetaLib Mobile – What? MetaLib results Bookmark eShelf QuickSet Category Primo Central

Mobile Library Future
No separate OPAC
No separate MetaSearch
One integrated search box – “PriMobile”
Linked with other datasources
Location aware

Mobile (Library) Future Search Get Linked Data Location voc GO

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