Lightening talk of MyMobileBristol at Dev8D, January, 2011

1. MyMobileBristol
Mike Jones
ILRT, University of Bristol
mike.a.jones@bristol.ac.uk
@MrJ1971
#mymobilebristol #jiscbce

2. The Project
12 month project funded by JISC
(funding ends in July 2011)
Collaboration with Bristol City Council
and other interested third parties
Looking to integrate local area time and
location sensitive data
Optimise delivery of data (especially
transport and sustainability information)
for mobile devices
Website: http://mymobilebristol.com

3. m.bristol.ac.uk
Supporting a ‘beta’ service at
http://m.bristol.ac.uk
Extending the software developed for
the Mobile Campus Assistant project
Current use cases:
• Where is there a PC available?
• When is the next bus to Temple
Meads?
• What events are happening today
at the University?
• Where is there a bicycle stand?
• Where is there a wireless hotspot?

4. Next Steps ...
Integration with University systems
• Single Sign On
• LDAP (contacts search)
• Z39.50 (Library Catalogue) etc.
• Portal data
• ????
User Experience Expert - workshops
with students
Designer - overhaul the look and feel
Discussions with the Council about
their data

5. Extra work from
stakeholder analysis
Support the next open
day with a mobile
website
Virtual Tour of the
University -
iPhone (and Android)
applications

6. RSS XML HTML
Harvest
JSON
HTML RDF
Proxy
Harvester(s)
Restful Interface Proxy
Update
Query
RDF Store
Live Screen Scraping :-( ...

7. RSS XML HTML
Harvest
JSON
HTML RDF KML Proxy
Harvester(s)
SPARQL
Restful Interface Endpoint Proxy
Update
Query
RDF Store
SPARQL and Geo

8. RSS XML HTML
Harvest
JSON
HTML RDF KML Proxy
Harvester(s)
SPARQL
Restful Interface Endpoint Proxy
Update
Query Query
Library
LDAP System ? RDF Store

9. Further Information
Website: http://mymobilebristol.com
Wiki: http://mmb.ilrt.bris.ac.uk
Issue Tracker: http://jira.ilrt.bris.ac.uk
Source Code: https://github.com/ilrt/mca