I am John Corbett from the University of Hertfordshire. We are just starting to develop in this direction and I am interested to see where others have reached.
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From: Mobile Special Interest Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Chris Bailey
Sent: 13 January 2010 09:41
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Subject: Re: University of Oxford introduction
Hi All,
I'm Chris Bailey, a developer at the University of Bristol. I worked on
the same JISC-funded Mobile Campus Assistent project as Mike Jones.
For this project I played around with the calendaring and events
information. I also developed an Android application to display nearby
bus times.
http://mobilecampus.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/2009/12/09/android-development/
Chris.
On 12/01/2010 17:34, Alexander Dutton wrote:
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> I'm part of the JISC-funded Erewhon project[0] at Oxford University
> Computing Services, which is due to finish at the end of March.
>
> The project has two main software deliverables:
>
> The first is Gaboto, a tool that enables us to model the locations and
> political relationships of entities within the University. Specifically,
> it generates a Java object-relational mapping on top of an RDF store,
> which we've rolled up into a RESTful web service[1]. This is developed
> under a BSD license and hosted with SourceForge[2].
>
> The second is Mobile Oxford[3], a mobile portal for the University,
> written in Python and built on Django[4]. The site grabs data from other
> sources and re-presents it in a format suitable for MIDs. At the moment,
> we have:
>
> * contact search (currently a scrape of our main website)
> * maps, including:
> * * University entities
> * * amenities from OpenStreetMap
> * * bus stops with real-time information (NaPTAN and OxonTime)
> * library search (Z39.50 interface)
> * podcasts (pulled from OPML feed)
> * news feeds (various RSS feeds)
> * service status (supplied by RSS feed)
> * webcams
> * weather (BBC)
>
> We're also in the process of adding Sakai VLE integration using OAuth,
> and events data from various sources.
>
> We use Gears and HTML5 for positioning, and WURFL for device detection.
> We use the WURFL capabilities information to generate static maps of the
> correct resolution for the target device, and to resize webcam and news
> item images on the fly.
>
> Once the project ends we're looking to continue development and
> open-source it. We'd quite like to build a community around it, and
> currently have plans to work with another institution to genericise it
> and deploy it at their University. If you're interested in taking part,
> we'd be glad to hear from you.
>
> Alex
>
>
> [0] http://erewhon.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
> [1] http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/oxpoints/index.xml.ID=body.1_div.2
> [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaboto/
> [3] http://m.ox.ac.uk/
> [4] http://www.djangoproject.com/
>
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> Alexander Dutton
> Erewhon Project Officer | m.ox.ac.uk developer
> Oxford University Computing Services, $B-d(B 01865 (6)13483
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