Mobilise UGent

Patrick Hochstenbach @hochstenbachDigital Architect, Ghent University Library

Developer Meets Developer - Jerusalem 10/11/04

http://lib.ugent.be/m

Exponential Growth

Increasing capabilities

1998 2002 2006 2007

PDA CameraGames

EmailMusic

VideoWebGPSApps

2010+?Tablet

Television3D Touch

Transflective Colors

2010 worldwide statistics

2010 Q2 worldwide mobile sales

19% of mobile market = smart phones

2010 Q2 smart phone martket31% of smart phones =

Android or iPhone

2010 web statistics88% Android or iPhone

9% of mobiles sold in 2010 is driving the mobile internet

University statistics

UC Davis 2009

43% surf the web- 88% read email- 90% websites- 72% read books/articles

TU Delft 2010UGent 2010

13% surf the web- 55% read email- 65% websites- 35% read books/articles

2009 Prototype 1

2009 Prototype 1

Main menu...

GPS-powered library search...

GPS-powered library search...

Incremental search...SMS like search, show results while

you type...

Brief and long views...

Hold request...Here we reused an in-house developed web application...

Boopsie supports ALEPH hold requests

RSS Feeds..

UGent Library tweets...

Creating submenu’s: list of mobile enabled

databases

•http://www.slideshare.net/hochstenbach/20100831-igelu-mobiliseugent