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Mobilise UGent

Explore the exponential growth and market potential of mobile technologies in libraries. Dive into implementation details, advancements in mobile web designs, and the impact on library services. Discover how mobile devices are reshaping the future of libraries.

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Mobilise UGent

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  1. Mobilise UGent • Patrick Hochstenbach @hochstenbach • Digital Architect, Ghent University Library • IGeLU 2010 - August 31 2010 http://lib.ugent.be/m

  2. Part I - The Numbers

  3. Internet Stats Facebook Google Twitter 0,5% WorldCat EBSCO UGent

  4. Mother of All Markets

  5. Exponential Growth

  6. Huge Market • Mobiles > Cars + PC’s + TV’s combined • Revenue SMS > Hollywood • Box Office + DVD Sales + Music Industry + Video Games • Smart Phones, Kindle, Tablet, MP3, Car Electronics, Mobile Video, Wireless Home Appliances, Smart Fabrics

  7. Increasing capabilities 1998 2006 2007 2010+? 2002 Tablet Television 3D Touch Transflective Colors Video Web GPS Apps Camera Games EmailMusic PDA

  8. 2010 worldwide statistics 2010 Q2 worldwide mobile sales 19% of mobile market = smart phones 2010 Q2 smart phone martket 31% of smart phones = Android or iPhone 2010 web statistics 88% Android or iPhone 9% of mobiles sold in 2010 is driving the mobile internet

  9. University statistics UC Davis 2009 TU Delft 2010 UGent 2010 13% surf the web 43% surf the web - 88% read email - 90% websites - 72% read books/articles - 55% read email - 65% websites - 35% read books/articles

  10. UGent Platform

  11. Where are they? Enrico Fermi - 1950

  12. Part II - Implementation Details

  13. 2009 Prototype 1 • WebApp • No JavaScript • Simplified CSS • 480 x 320 • Fast & Easy prototyping (2 days to set it up)

  14. 2009 Prototype 1

  15. 2009 Prototype 1

  16. 2009 Results • Mobile web = absolute developer fun! • Issues in 2009: • Mobile Web != Desktop Web (maybe this will change?) • Still a bit Wild West: new practices, quirks and workarounds • Libraries reinvent iPhone / Android look & feel but what about older Nokia, Sony Ericsson, BlackBerry? • What about: telephone, GPS, video, camera, tilt/touch sensors, 3D, app integration (agenda, etc)? Will HTML5 specs keep up with new hardware capabilities?

  17. 2010 Prototype 2 • http://www.boopsie.com • Hybrid Application: Native + HTML code • iPhone, Android,BlackBerry,WinMobile,... • MARC Dumps/Z39.50 • Aleph 500 integration • Word/Excel to define menu’s

  18. Main menu...

  19. GPS-powered library search...

  20. GPS-powered library search...

  21. Incremental search... SMS like search, show results while you type...

  22. Brief and long views...

  23. Hold request... Here we reused an in-house developed web application... Boopsie supports ALEPH hold requests

  24. RSS Feeds..

  25. UGent Library tweets...

  26. Creating submenu’s: list of mobile enabled databases

  27. Admin interface

  28. TOC (sub) Menus

  29. TOC in vanilla interface

  30. Reading list

  31. Reading list in vanilla interface

  32. Results • 4 months, 3 persons: • 2 system librarians : 2 x 0.1 FTE • 1project manager: 1 x 0.1 FTE • Costs: ~ 4 weeks paying a programmer • Some work to synchronize library addresses (250). Setup the hold request link. Testing on iPhone, HTC and Nokia. • More work in color schemes to use, icons, etc...

  33. Acknowledgements • Frank Vandepitte - UGent Library • Paul Bastijns - UGent Library • Omar Reygaert - UGent Library • Gary Fletcher - Boopsie Inc

  34. Sources • MorganStanley “The Mobile Internet Report” http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/mobile_internet_report122009.html • Gartner Newshttp://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1421013 • Student Smart Phone Survey - Winter 2009http://clm.ucdavis.edu/pubs/survey/student-w09-2.html • TU Delft Mobile Survey Resultshttp://www.slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg/tu-delft-mobile-survey-results • The Mobile Internet is Bigger Than You Think http://www.slideshare.net/grigs/the-mobile-internet-is-bigger-than-you-think

  35. Sources 2 • Mobile Web App Design: Getting Started - Michael Doran - Code4Lib 2010http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/doran • Fermi paradoxhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

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