1. Scoil an Léinn Eolais agus na Leabharlannaíochta UCD UCD School of Information and Library Studies OJAX: Facilitating dynamic access to repository metadata Judith Wusteman DORSDL ‘06

2. Overview Ajax Introducing OJAX Group discussion

3. Ajax Asynchronous JavaScript + XML Asynchronous communication between browser clients and server-side system A general approach to the development of interactive Web applications

4. Diagram of ajax? More explanation of ajax Jesse James Garrett, 2005

5. Ajax Applications AJAX Applications

8. OJAX

9. OJAX demo

10. Future research directions Integrations and interoperability –e.g. OJAX as an alternative search interface for institutional repository software OJAX++ collaborative research environment

11. Discussion: Implications of Ajax for repository systems? Web 2.0: –Are libraries responding fast enough? Standard Web Services for libraries: –Are the library vendors doing enough? Adopting good-enough universal standards vs perfect-fit library standards: Should there be a distinction between Library 2.0 and Web 2.0 technology?

12. Unifying the user interface

13. Auto-completion Auto-search Dynamic archive list

14. Dynamic scrolling

15. Auto-expansion of results

16. Sorting results

17. OJAX 0.6: Opensearch