1. location-aware mobile search mj suhonos Toronto Public Library

2. location-aware mobile search simple problem: where is the closest copy of an item to where I am standing now? i have only an iphone

3. TPL

4. questions to start with do we have an API to access the catalogue? can we present human-readable results? can we make it feel like a “native” app? can it work on multiple kinds of devices? as simple as possible for the user

5. web service-style three-tier

6. simpler is better transformation pipeline free libraries: yaz, xslt, domxml, iui open standards: marcxml, mods, html5

7. http://mytpl.ca unofficial side-project running in my living room works for any library with z39.50 works in any browser with html5 geolocation

8. look around you old != bad new != good open technology = critical sometimes a butter knife makes a pretty decent screwdriver

9. full story in code4lib journal issue 10 source code available now under GPL3 http://github.com/mjsuhonos/mytpl/ mj@suhonos.ca http://datalogue.wordpress.com sharing is good