Mobile Oxford and Molly

Alexander DuttonOxford University Computing Services

13 July 2010

“Demonstration Mobile Applications”Erewhon

“Demonstration Mobile Applications”Erewhon

Mobile Oxford

m.ox.ac.uk

PLACES

Multiple geo sources, Open Street Map,

HTML5 etc

CONTACTSSysdev XML interface/LDAP

or screen scraping

LIBRARY SEARCH

Z39.50 (library protocol), OpenStreetMap, 3rd Party GIS

Universal SearchRegex pattern matching for ISBNs, Bus Stops and

interfaces with our Google Search Appliance.

Realtime Information

RESTful API

Every page may be returned as HTML, XML, JSON, and YAML.Use e.g. “?format=xml” or content negotiation.

We support JSONP for other webapps.

Other ideas/work in progressMore Sakai tooks

Walking/Cycle RoutingShort Course Bookings

Live train timesCollege Meal Bookings

Location based study group organiserAugmented reality layer

Further social networking integrationLocal city event listingsFully AJAX interface

Official Traffic camerasMany more!

Molly as ‘Mobile Oxford’

Data Aggregation and Manipulation

Layer

Web User Interface

Feature phone UI

Data Flow Diagram (Simplified)

Smartphone UI

etc. phones under 100USD

RESTful API

Native Applications

Other Applications

OSSOracle Student System

OxPointsGeo-Spatial Database

OakDirectory Service

Oxford iTunes U Integration

Oxford Library Information Service

Open Street Map

And More...

Lots

of D

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Sour

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Molly, the open source projectHosted on SourceForge

Developer and implementor mailing listsAll development in public in a Git repository

Hoping to develop ‘providers’ for other common systemsCurrently being implemented at Oxford and Brookes

Aiming to directly compete with commercial alternatives (e.g. campusM and Blackboard Mobile)

Links

Molly:http://mollyproject.org/

irc://irc.freenode.org/#molly

Mobile Oxford:http://m.ox.ac.uk/

mobileoxford@oucs.ox.ac.uk@mobileox