Building a mobile site at UNC Chad Haefele Emerging Technologies Librarian UNC 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

Why now?

The Old Browser

The New Browser

Even Better

Why mobile?

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

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

Platform Vs.

Which platform? Market share – devices sold (July 2010) Mobile web use (August 2010) Anon August 2010 Mobile OS Share. Quantcast Blog. September Anon comScore Reports July 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share -- RESTON, Va., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ subscriber-market-share html. subscriber-market-share html

Source:

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 AppWebapp Platform: App or Webapp?

UNC Mobile site walkthrough + ‘View full site link’

UNC Mobile site walkthrough

Catalog

UNC Mobile site walkthrough

Framework iUI: code.google.com/p/iui/ code.google.com/p/iui/

Device testing iPhone/iPod Touch

Device testing Android

iUI Code 12

Device testing Text only

Mobile site generator

Next steps: A catalog Priority 1: Get a clean data feed  XML feeds from ILS  Yaz / Z39.50 (  Other solution – tap into DB directly somehow Harass your vendors!

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

Catalog: ILS solutions Airpac, from Innovative

Catalog: 3 rd party product Library Anywhere “Works with 90% of current OPACs.” LibraryAnywhere LibraryAnywhere

This is not the end Slides online: