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Building a mobile site at UNC. Chad Haefele Emerging Technologies Librarian UNC Chapel Hill [email protected]. 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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Building a mobile site at UNC
Chad HaefeleEmerging Technologies LibrarianUNC Chapel Hill
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
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
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.
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
App Webapp
Platform: App or Webapp?
Next steps: A catalog
Priority 1: Get a clean data feedXML feeds from ILSYaz / Z39.50 (http://www.indexdata.com/yaz)Other solution – tap into DB directly somehow
Harass your vendors!
Catalog: 3rd party product
Library Anywhere “Works with 90% of
current OPACs.” http://
www.librarything.com/LibraryAnywhere