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