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Explore OJAX, a powerful Web 2.0 search interface designed for dynamic collaboration among researchers. OJAX offers rich user experience, intuitive interface, and open-source standards compliance. Join us in revolutionizing research collaboration!
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OJAX: A Web 2.0 search user interface Judith Wusteman March 2007
Overview • Web 2.0 technologies • Introducing OJAX • OJAX Demo • Related research
What is Web 2.0?Ideas, technologies and implicationsfor education Paul Anderson JISC Technology and Standards Watch, Feb. 2007 Special focus on collection and preservation activities within libraries http://www.jisc.ac.uk/techwatch
Key Web 2.0 services/applicationsPaul Anderson • Blogs, wikis • Tagging and social bookmarking • Multimedia sharing • Audio blogging and podcasting • RSS and syndication • “Newer services” • Social networking • Aggregation services • Mash-ups • Tracking, collaborating • Replicating office-style software in the browser……
Web 2.0 Technologies and Standardsused in OJAX • RIA: Rich Internet Applications • REST • JSON • Atom • OAI-PMH • OpenSearch • Open API • StaX • Apache Lucene
RIA: Rich Internet Applications • Flash • AJAX
Ajax • Asynchronous JavaScript + XML • Don’t have to wait for an entire web page to be downloaded after every user action • A general approach to the development of interactive Web applications
Diagram of ajax? More explanation of ajax Jesse James Garrett, 2005
AJAX Applications Ajax Applications
AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript And XML • XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <listYearsResponse> <response type="object" id="availableYearsList"> <option value="1950">1950</option> <option value="1953">1953</option> </response> </listYearsResponse> • JSON (JavaScript Object Notation): ["reson",["resonance","resonator","resonant","resonating","resonators"]]
OpenSearch • Enables search engines to describe their search syntax to browsers • Describes standards for search results syntax • Based on RSS and Atom
SFI:OJAX++: a next generation collaborative research tool To investigate how concepts from the Social Web can be applied to the research environment in order to facilitate dynamic collaboration and the sharing of ideas among researchers. PhD starting September 2007 Interested? Please contact judith.wusteman@ucd.ie
Advantages of OJAX • Developed in Ireland. Can be adapted to suit. • Already in Beta version. Available for download. • Well received • Responds to new user expectations generated by Web 2.0 • Rich, dynamic user experience. • Intuitive interface. • Integration, interoperability and reuse. • Open source standards-compliance. • including OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, StAX and Apache Lucene.