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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, ℡ 01865 (6)13483
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