mymobilebristol and nature locator @ osjmob11
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Presentation given at osjmob11, Wolfson College, Oxford, 5 July 2011TRANSCRIPT
Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT)
Established in 1996
~50 staff working in R&D,consultancy, support andservices
Expertise in web application development, semantic web, linked data, mobile technologies, social software and data visualisation
Provide an R&D role for IT Services at the University of Bristol
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Mobile Campus AssistantStarted as a JISC funded ‘Rapid Innovation’ project
6 Month project with 1.1 FTEs, August to November, 2009
Further developed in the JISC funded MyMobileBristol project - collaboration with Bristol City Council (July 2010 to August 2011)
Software available under a BSD-style license
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Rationale
What issues are there in providing a time and location sensitive application for
students?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonivc/2283676770 http://www.flickr.com/photos/nullalux/2261949240
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Where is the nearest open library?
Use Cases
Where is the nearest available PC or wireless hotspot?
What time is the next bus?
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Website or Native App?
(not forgetting PhoneGap, Titanium etc.)Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Mobile JISC
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RDF Store
RSS XML HTML
Harvester(s)
Harvest
Update
Harvesting data sourcesTuesday, 5 July 2011
RDF Store
RSS XML HTML
Harvester(s)
Harvest
Update
Query
Restful Interface
HTMLJSON
RDF
Querying the data storeTuesday, 5 July 2011
RDF Store
RSS XML HTML
Harvester(s)
Harvest
Update
Query
Restful Interface
HTMLJSON
RDF
Proxy
Proxy
If all else fails ... screen scrapeTuesday, 5 July 2011
SPARQLEndpoint
RDF Store
RSS XML HTML
Harvester(s)
Harvest
Update
Query
Restful Interface
HTMLJSON
RDF
Proxy
ProxyKML
SPARQL Endpoint and Geo supportTuesday, 5 July 2011
SPARQLEndpoint
RDF Store
RSS XML HTML
Harvester(s)
Harvest
Update
Query
Restful Interface
HTMLJSON
RDF
Proxy
Proxy
LDAP LibrarySystem ?
Query
KML
Extensible RESTful interfaceTuesday, 5 July 2011
Technology Stack
Jersey (JAX-RS Reference Implementation)
Jena Semantic Web Framework
FreeMarker Template Language
H2 Database Engine
Apache MavenJEE Servlet Container
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Native apps can use the data
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Issues about data
Data is in silos
Copyright and IPR issues
Incomplete data
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ian-s/2152798588
Copy might not be appropriate for mobile context
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Love thisapplication.
Really good ... Great work!Much needed.
thanks for the work
Some Feedback
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Walking Tour
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Shameless Plug
Transferability Workshop
27 July 2011, Bristol
Sessions on ‘Student Engagement’, ‘The Cultural Experience’, ‘Local
Authority Engagement’ and other project outputs.
http://bit.ly/kM48xP
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Further Information
Project Website:http://mymobilebristol.com
Demonstrator:http://m.bristol.ac.uk
Source code:https://github.com/ilrt/mca
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Nature Locator
10 Month Project (ends October 2011)
JISC-funded - geospatial strand
Tracking the spread of an alien species - the leaf miner moth
Supporting the Conker Tree Science project - Universities of Bristol and Hull
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Citizen Science
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cannongod/
Members of the public help locate damage caused by an
alien species - leaf miner moth
Photo by Dave Kilby
In 2010 ... (i) Observe evidence of infestation and complete an online form (ii) place a leaf in a
plastic wallet and identify insects emerge ... moths and predators
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2010 Results
2700 people submitted results
Improbable results in survey data: other diseases mis-identified
Photographic evidence needed to verify those results.
How do we obtain, store and manage submitted data?
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Technical Solution ...
HTML 5, CSS3, JavaScript + access to native APIs
Need to access the phone’scamera
Targeted iPhone and Android first - option to add support for others devices
http://www.phonegap.com/
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Image + metadata Google App Engine
High Replication Datastore
Photos + Geo-Location
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On the App Store + Market
Search for: ‘Leaf Watch’
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Feedback ...
‘Easy to use, quite self explanatory’
‘Just used app. Seems very easy to use’
‘It is workable, and usable; functional. But it doesn't leave me with a sense of elegance, and grace of delight and pleasure. Which is what Apple keep banging on about, and everyone else gives a resigned sigh.’
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Next Stage
Look at approaches to crowd source the data verification ... mobile game?
Visualisation tools? Illustrate the spread of the moth.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37539972@N06/3913505623/
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Further Information
http://www.ourweboflife.org.uk/
http://naturelocator.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
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Thanks :-)
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