iPhone/Mobile Applications for

Digital Library

Minglu Wang (minglu@rutgers.edu)2008-2009: Digital Library Fellow, University of Iowa

Current: Data Services Librarian at Dana Library, Rutgers-Newark

Agenda

Study examples

Technical tools for non-Apple developers

Examples

Duke University, Northwestern University

International Children's Digital Library

Museums

Prototypes (Europeana and UNLV)

Duke University

Northwestern University

International Children’s Digital Library

StoryKit by ICDL Foundation

Yours, Vincent by the Van Gogh Museum in

Amsterdam

Love Art: National Gallery, London

University of Nevada, Las VegasDigital Library Mobile Prototype

Brian Egan (2009) Blog Posts “Going Mobile Series”

Europeana Mobile Prototype

'EuropeanaConnect: Enhancing User Access to European Digital Heritage‘ By Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library. Cultural Heritage Online 2009, Florence, 16 December 2009

Features

Contents: Single Images Ebooks Audios and Videos

Search: keyword and location

Insights: added value

Users’ contribution: tagging, commenting, sharing, and creating

Web App or Native App?

Mobile search company Taput’s The State of the Mobile Touch Web (January 2010 )

Mobile/iPhone App for Iowa DL – Minglu Wang

Mockup using Axure RP

Mobile Safari Web Appusing DashcodeOther User Interface (UI) Frameworks for web apps:iui; jQtouch; iWebkit

iPhone App using PhoneGap

•Using HTML & JavaScript•Cross Platforms: iPhone; Android, Blackberry, and more

Project Process

CONTENTdm API Document (Thanks for Mark Anderson)

Using API generates RSS feed (Thanks for Paul Soderdahl)

Using Axure RP develops a mockup

Using Dashcode develops a Web App

Using PhoneGap converts Web App to Native App

Tools

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

DashCode and UI Frameworks for iPhone Apps (iUI, jQTouch, iWebkit)

PhoneGap : Cross platform mobile framework

Developing iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, First Edition By Jonathan Stark

Learn to Build iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - O'Reilly Media By Elisabeth Robson

iPhone Human Interface Guidelines

DashCode

See the following tutorial from DashCode User Guide

Mobile Safari Web Application Tutorial

PhoneGap

Open source development tool

Using HTML and JavaScript