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Building a mobile site at UNC

Building a mobile site at UNC. Chad Haefele Emerging Technologies Librarian UNC 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?. The Old Browser.

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Building a mobile site at UNC

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  1. Building a mobile site at UNC Chad Haefele Emerging Technologies Librarian UNC Chapel Hill cHaefele@email.unc.edu

  2. 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

  3. Why now?

  4. The Old Browser

  5. The New Browser

  6. Even Better

  7. Why mobile?

  8. User Survey Plus 44 ‘other’ responses Data from Spring, 2009

  9. Sample ‘Other’ responses: • Cell phone • Cheap free phone • Braille Note • Carrier pigeon • Lame old phone :( • My cheap phone that always has at least 2 bars

  10. Platform Vs.

  11. 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.

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

  13. 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 Platform: App or Webapp? App Webapp

  14. UNC Mobile site walkthrough www.lib.unc.edu/m + ‘View full site link’

  15. UNC Mobile site walkthrough

  16. Catalog

  17. UNC Mobile site walkthrough

  18. UNC Mobile site walkthrough

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

  20. Framework • iUI: code.google.com/p/iui/ www.lib.unc.edu/m

  21. Device testing • iPhone/iPod Touch

  22. Device testing Android

  23. iUI Code 12

  24. Device testing Text only

  25. Mobile site generator www.hiddenpeanuts.com/msg

  26. Next steps: A catalog • Priority 1: Get a clean data feed • XML feeds from ILS • Yaz / Z39.50 (http://www.indexdata.com/yaz) • Other solution – tap into DB directly somehow • Harass your vendors!

  27. Catalog: DIY (at UNC) • Endeca, Endeca, Endeca! • XML + php + Syndetics + iUI

  28. Catalog: ILS solutions Airpac, from Innovative

  29. Catalog: 3rd party product Library Anywhere “Works with 90% of current OPACs.” http://www.librarything.com/LibraryAnywhere

  30. This is not the end Slides online: http://bit.ly/HaefeleASERL

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