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OOPS: Online Offline Publication System

Information sharing in difficult contexts

The context

•Problem: provide/distribute relevant, updated information

•Context: limited connectivity in time and bandwidth, location, etc.

Most popular technology supporting OFFLINE.

User requirements

• Easily managed by non technical staff.

• Online/Offline (with search, navigation, tags, links, etc.)

• Leverage and use existing Web Products

• Cross platform

• Optimized for different devices, including mobiles

• Lightweight in data storage and in data replication

• Open source and non-licensed software ONLY

• Also run from an ‘USB key’ , no installation

• Commenting and Feedback

The idea: a web architecture

•Use existing Web Products

•Adopt emerging Web Standards

•Leverage new powerful software libraries

Online Offline Publication System (OOPS)

•System to produce websites

•Offline (with search, navigation, tags, links, etc.)

•That update!

•Everything through the browser

Some OOPS features

•Provides portable, in-browser, and mobile

•Manages files annexes, links and advanced search

•Allows commenting and feedback

•Optimized for low bandwidth

ArchitectureMade with Open SourceUses HTML5 and GearsExtensive platform support

DEMO

Analysis started in July 2009, in production since March 2010.

Future? a new breed of web applications

•Based on OOPS or similar products

•NEXT is:

•data collection (work in progress)

• communication

• collaboration

•...

The opportunity

•to make knowledge travel

•to make it easy to share, collect, distribute knowledge

WEB + OFFLINE = powerful ICT4D tools

“Many organizations share the need to make knowledge available where Internet connectivity is

limited in availability, time and bandwidth.”

Questions?

Francesco Ciriaci@fciriacifrancesco@reflab.com+39 050 866 54 14+39 333 4284 675

ReferencesOOPS Overview - http://www.reflab.com/solutions/online-offline-publication-system

OOPS Repository - http://code.google.com/p/online-offline-ps

OOPS Demo - http://alice.reflab.com

HTML5 offline - http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/offline/whats-offline/

Logistics Operation Guide - http://log.logcluster.org/