LIR/AGI Mobile Technologies Symposium Ronán Kennedy, NUI Galway

LIR/AGI Mobile Technologies Symposium

Ronán Kennedy, NUI Galway

Introduction

Web access from mobile devices will exceed desktop access by 2015 [source]

React or Prepare?

http://blog.observatory.jisc.ac.uk/techwatch-reports/delivering-web-to-mobile/

• Prepare a strategy1. analyse the demand2. access to resources3. access to catalogue4. access to Library services – room bookings, etc.

• Seamless mobile access through- responsive web design- apps – native or hybrid?

Introduction

School Institute Name to go here

4.2% of site usage is mobile – at least

October 2012

Catalogue Searches: 655,0004.2% - 27,500 on mobile

2. Access To Resources - The Mobile HubMobile Hub

Apps

Mobile Sites

Didn’t turn out that way

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work”Peter Drucker

Native App Difficulties – for dedicated users only

• Massive OS discrepancies – heavy Apple weighting

• On campus access only

• App only allows searching, not access (to avoid authentication issues)

• Institutional email must be accessible from device

• Time-limited tokens

• Personal profile on site needed

• Legibility issues – in design and fulltext

• User would need to know the resource and its content very well

• Publishers don’t make money on these – future implications

Native Apps

Discovery NOT Delivery

Open University Project: most users don’t want to read fulltext on their devices [source]

http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/macon/discovery/user-requirements-report/

The Vendors’ View

“We’re not going to bother with apps, we’re going concentrate on mobile site accessibility.

They’re quick, they’re clean and your users don’t need to do anything different”

3. Access To Catalogue - Mobile Catalogue

Well embedded ‘desktop version’

4. Access to Library ServicesApp or Mobile Web?

• Functionality Required (Hardware needed? Offline access needed?)• Planned user interaction and activity• User preference and devices• Resources – money and time• Technical Knowledge (different programming languages for different types

of app)• Timescale[source]

http://mlibraries.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2011/12/19/native-mobile-app-vs-mobile-web/

Mobile Web App• Uses open web technology: HTML5, CSS, Java• Deployed through the web, hosted locally

• No need to worry about many SDKs• Embraces all OSs

Thanks for listening!

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LIR/AGI Mobile Technologies Symposium Ronán Kennedy, NUI Galway

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