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UBA MobileLukas Koster l.koster@uva.nl http://twitter.com/lukask

Roxana Popistaşu R.M.Popistasu@uva.nl

IGeLU 2010 Gent

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UBA Mobile web apphttp://m.uba.uva.nl

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UBA Mobile – principles 1

Web access any time anywhere Location awareness

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simona_/4068354970/

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UBA Mobile – principles 2

No local apps for iPhone, Android, Blackberry…

1 web app

Optimised for mobile

devices

Native look and feel

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UBA Mobile – principles 3

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/

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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/

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UBA Mobile Quick Release 1 – April 1, 2010

UvA Catalogue Library tweets Opening hours Address information Questions, feedback Contact phone numbers Locations

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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…

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More info

http://commonplace.net/2010/03/mobile-library-services/

http://www.delicious.com/lukask/mobile Book Chapter “Catalogue 2.0” (november 2010)

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UBA Mobile – Team and feedback

Alice Doek Driek Heesakkers Gré Ootjers Lukas Koster Roxana Popistaşu

Feedback:

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Mobile Aleph OPAC

“Someone outside your organizationwill always have a better idea than you…”

Kristin Olofsson: To be open (ELAG 2010)

Based on Julia mobile (Jönköping University Library) EL Commons CodeShare

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Mobile Aleph OPAC - Characteristics

One web-app for all devices

Stripped down version of Aleph UI

New “language” interface

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

Mobile Aleph OPAC - Challenges

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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_GowanTwestival Montreal Cupcakes

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Mobile Aleph OPAC & QR codes

QR codereader

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Mobile Aleph OPAC – future ideas

Location aware delivery Refworks link New acquisitions

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It doesn’t matter how good your product is if nobody knows about it.

Remember to market it!

Mobile Aleph OPAC – Marketing!

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Mobile MetaLib

1. What?

2. How? Agile!

1. How?

2. What?

Steal, uhhh, “re-use”

Who cares, uhhh, “ask our users”

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MetaLib Mobile – How?

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

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

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

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

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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

MobileMetalib

X-Server

PHPCSSJS

HTMLCSSJS

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

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MetaLib Mobile – How? What?

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MetaLib Mobile – How? What?

UMN uses

OpenUrl field in X-

Server

Selects “journal”

field (=articles only)

Presents OpenUrl

fields

Links to SFX

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MetaLib Mobile – What?

MetaLibresults

Abstract

Journalarticles

QuickSet

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MetaLib Mobile – What?

Problem with

UvA OPAC

Other databases

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MetaLib Mobile – What?

What to search? One search?

Quicksets? Categories? Maybe PrimoCentral only?

What to get? Fulltext? Metadata for later use?

MetaLib Mobile – What?

MetaLibresults

BookmarkeShelf

QuickSet Category PrimoCentral

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Mobile Library Future

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

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Mobile (Library) Future

voc GO

Search Get

Linked DataLocation