Mobilize UGent Patrick Hochstenbach @hochstenbach Digital Architect, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent Informatie Aan Zee 2011, Oostende
Mobilize UGentPatrick Hochstenbach @hochstenbach
Digital Architect, Universiteitsbibliotheek GentInformatie Aan Zee 2011, Oostende
Part I - The Numbers
Internet Stats
80%
20%
91%
9%
94%
6%
99%
1%
99%
1%
100%
1%
Facebook Google Twitter
WorldCat EBSCO UGent
0,5%
Mother of All Markets
Exponential Growth
0
1.000.000.000
2.000.000.000
3.000.000.000
4.000.000.000
1998 2002 2006 2010
Internet Mobile
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
Increasing capabilities
1998 2002 2006 2007
PDA CameraGames
EmailMusic
VideoWebGPSApps
2010+?Tablet
Television3D Touch
Transflective Colors
2010 worldwide statistics
19%
81%
Cell Phones Smart Phones
69%
14%
17%
AndroidiPhoneRest
4%8%
44%
44%
Android iPhoneBlackBerry Rest
2010 Q2 worldwide mobile sales 19% of mobile market = smart phones
2010 Q2 smart phone martket31% of smart phones =
Android or iPhone
2010 web statistics88% Android or iPhone
9% of mobiles sold in 2010 is driving the mobile internet
University statistics
43%57%
Mobile VoiceMobile Data
UC Davis 2009
43% surf the web- 88% read email- 90% websites- 72% read books/articles
48% 52%
TU Delft 2010
13%
87%
UGent 2010
13% surf the web
- 55% read email- 65% websites- 35% read books/articles
UGent Platform
6%3%
3%
12%
28%
47%
Nokia SamsungSony AndroidiPhone Other
Where are they?Enrico Fermi - 1950
Part II - Implementation Details
What
• SMS?
• Mobile Website?
• Mobile Web Widgets?
• Mobile Web Apps?
• Native Apps?
• Game?
Options
• DIY
• Stand on shoulders of others:
• Aleph - Aleph Mobile OPAC by Daniel Forsman
• Primo - Ex Libris
• Metalib - Xerxes by Davisd Walker
• Generic - Boopsie Inc
Aleph Mobile
2010 UvA Aleph Mobile
Xerxes
Xerxes
Primo
Primo
DIY
2009 UGent DIY
2009 UGent DIY
2009 UGent DIY
• 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?
Boopsie
2010 Boopsie
• 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
Main menu...
GPS-powered library search...
GPS-powered library search...
Incremental search...SMS like search, show results while you type...
Brief and long views...
Hold request...
Here we reused an in-house developed web application...
Boopsie supports ALEPH hold requests
RSS Feeds..
UGent Library tweets...
Creating submenu’s: list of mobile enabled databases
Admin interface
TOC (sub) Menus
TOC in vanilla interface
Reading list
Reading list in vanilla interface
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...
Acknowledgements
• Frank Vandepitte - UGent Library
• Paul Bastijns - UGent Library
• Omar Reygaert - UGent Library
• Gary Fletcher - Boopsie Inc
• Lukas Koster - University of Amsterdam
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
• UBA Mobile http://www.slideshare.net/lukask/uba-mobile-igelu-2010
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