A lightning talk given at the Eduserv Symposium 2010: The Mobile University by Tim Fernando of the University of Oxford.

1. The Molly Project & Mobile Oxford
Tim Fernando,
Project Manager, Mobile Oxford
Architect, The Molly Project
Eduserv Symposium
13 May 2010
#esym10 #mobileox #mollyproj

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3. Project Erewhon - 18th Month JISC Institutional
Innovation Project at the University of Oxford

5. Designed to work on *any* web capable phone
it automatically makes best use of
each device’s capabilities

6. Accessible and Inclusive

7. Open Source
Academic Free Licence v3

8. No Lockin
Longevity
Low Risk

9. m.ox.ac.uk

10. MAPS
Multiple geo sources,
Open Street Map,
Google,
HTML5 etc

11. CONTACTS
via LDAP,

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

13. Universal Search
Regex pattern matching for ISBNs, Bus Stops and
interfaces with our Google Search Appliance.

14. Realtime Information

15. Much more to come!
Entirely RESTful, so it’s but a matter of time before we have
native apps which can connect to the system.

16. Vote No! to licence fees!

17. interested?
Molly Project http://mollyproject.org @mollyproj
Mobile Oxford http://m.ox.ac.uk @mobileox
tim.fernando@oucs.ox.ac.uk
@timfernando
Mobile Oxford