Building a mobile site at UNC

Chad HaefeleEmerging Technologies LibrarianUNC Chapel Hill

cHaefele@email.unc.edu

What I’ll be showing you

A tour through the UNC Libraries mobile site

An explanation of our framework: iUI

A bit about a mobile site generator

Why now?

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Why mobile?

User Survey

Plus 44 ‘other’ responses

Data from Spring, 2009

Sample ‘Other’ responses:

Cell phone Cheap free phone Braille Note Carrier pigeon Lame old phone :( My cheap phone that always has at least 2

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Platform

Vs.

Which platform?

Market share – devices sold(July 2010)

Mobile web use(August 2010)

Anon. 2010. August 2010 Mobile OS Share. Quantcast Blog. September 3. http://blog.quantcast.com/quantcast/2010/09/august-2010-mobile-os-share.html.

Anon. 2010. comScore Reports July 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share -- RESTON, Va., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ --. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/comscore-reports-july-2010-us-mobile-subscriber-market-share-102969094.html.

Source: http://blog.quantcast.com/quantcast/2010/09/august-2010-mobile-os-share.html

Java, Objective C

Single platform

Full hardware access(GPS, camera, etc)

Can be used offline

Tricky to get stats

HTML, CSS, Javascript

Multi-platform (maybe)

Limited hardware access (GPS only)

Requires web connection

Standard webstats

App Webapp

Platform: App or Webapp?

UNC Mobile site walkthrough

+ ‘View full site link’

www.lib.unc.edu/m

UNC Mobile site walkthrough

Catalog

UNC Mobile site walkthrough

UNC Mobile site walkthrough

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/155604654/

Framework

iUI: code.google.com/p/iui/

www.lib.unc.edu/m

Device testing

iPhone/iPod Touch

Device testing

Android

iUI Code

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Device testing Text only

Mobile site generator

www.hiddenpeanuts.com/msg

Next steps: A catalog

Priority 1: Get a clean data feedXML feeds from ILSYaz / Z39.50 (http://www.indexdata.com/yaz)Other solution – tap into DB directly somehow

Harass your vendors!

Catalog: DIY (at UNC)

Endeca, Endeca, Endeca! XML + php + Syndetics + iUI

Catalog: ILS solutions Airpac, from Innovative

Catalog: 3rd party product

Library Anywhere “Works with 90% of

current OPACs.” http://

www.librarything.com/LibraryAnywhere

This is not the end

Slides online: http://bit.ly/HaefeleASERL