Mobilize UGentPatrick Hochstenbach @hochstenbach

Digital Architect, Universiteitsbibliotheek GentInformatie Aan Zee 2011, Oostende

Part I - The Numbers

Internet Stats

80%

20%

91%

9%

94%

6%

99%

1%

99%

1%

100%

1%

Facebook Google Twitter

WorldCat EBSCO UGent

0,5%

Mother of All Markets

Exponential Growth

0

1.000.000.000

2.000.000.000

3.000.000.000

4.000.000.000

1998 2002 2006 2010

Internet Mobile

Huge Market

• Mobiles > Cars + PC’s + TV’s combined

• Revenue SMS > Hollywood

• Box Office + DVD Sales + Music Industry + Video Games

• Smart Phones, Kindle, Tablet, MP3, Car Electronics, Mobile Video, Wireless Home Appliances, Smart Fabrics

Increasing capabilities

1998 2002 2006 2007

PDA CameraGames

EmailMusic

VideoWebGPSApps

2010+?Tablet

Television3D Touch

Transflective Colors

2010 worldwide statistics

19%

81%

Cell Phones Smart Phones

69%

14%

17%

AndroidiPhoneRest

4%8%

44%

44%

Android iPhoneBlackBerry Rest

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

43%57%

Mobile VoiceMobile Data

UC Davis 2009

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

48% 52%

TU Delft 2010

13%

87%

UGent 2010

13% surf the web

- 55% read email- 65% websites- 35% read books/articles

UGent Platform

6%3%

3%

12%

28%

47%

Nokia SamsungSony AndroidiPhone Other

Where are they?Enrico Fermi - 1950

Part II - Implementation Details

What

• SMS?

• Mobile Website?

• Mobile Web Widgets?

• Mobile Web Apps?

• Native Apps?

• Game?

Options

• DIY

• Stand on shoulders of others:

• Aleph - Aleph Mobile OPAC by Daniel Forsman

• Primo - Ex Libris

• Metalib - Xerxes by Davisd Walker

• Generic - Boopsie Inc

Aleph Mobile

2010 UvA Aleph Mobile

Xerxes

Xerxes

Primo

Primo

DIY

2009 UGent DIY

2009 UGent DIY

2009 UGent DIY

• Mobile web = absolute developer fun!

• Issues in 2009:

• Mobile Web != Desktop Web (maybe this will change?)

• Still a bit Wild West: new practices, quirks and workarounds

• Libraries reinvent iPhone / Android look & feel but what about older Nokia,

Sony Ericsson, BlackBerry?

• What about: telephone, GPS, video, camera, tilt/touch sensors, 3D, app integration (agenda, etc)? Will HTML5 specs keep up with new hardware capabilities?

Boopsie

2010 Boopsie

• http://www.boopsie.com

• Hybrid Application: Native + HTML code

• iPhone, Android,BlackBerry,WinMobile,...

• MARC Dumps/Z39.50

• Aleph 500 integration

• Word/Excel to define menu’s

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

Admin interface

TOC (sub) Menus

TOC in vanilla interface

Reading list

Reading list in vanilla interface

Results

• 4 months, 3 persons:

• 2 system librarians : 2 x 0.1 FTE

• 1project manager: 1 x 0.1 FTE

• Costs: ~ 4 weeks paying a programmer

• Some work to synchronize library addresses (250). Setup the hold request link. Testing on iPhone, HTC and Nokia.

• More work in color schemes to use, icons, etc...

Acknowledgements

• Frank Vandepitte - UGent Library

• Paul Bastijns - UGent Library

• Omar Reygaert - UGent Library

• Gary Fletcher - Boopsie Inc

• Lukas Koster - University of Amsterdam

Sources

• MorganStanley “The Mobile Internet Report” http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/mobile_internet_report122009.html

• Gartner Newshttp://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1421013

• Student Smart Phone Survey - Winter 2009http://clm.ucdavis.edu/pubs/survey/student-w09-2.html

• TU Delft Mobile Survey Resultshttp://www.slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg/tu-delft-mobile-survey-results

• The Mobile Internet is Bigger Than You Think http://www.slideshare.net/grigs/the-mobile-internet-is-bigger-than-you-think

• UBA Mobile http://www.slideshare.net/lukask/uba-mobile-igelu-2010

Sources