http://mymobilebristol.com
12 month JISC funded project – funding ends July 2011
Collaboration with Bristol City Council and others
Looking to integrte local area time and location sensitive data
Optimise delivery of data – esp. transport and sustainability information – for mobile devices
Supporting a ‘beta’ service at http://m.bristol.ac.uk – mainly aimed at students
Brings in data from OpenStreetMap as well
What next?
Integration with University systems
Single Sign On
LDAP (contacts search)
Z39.50 + Aleph API (Library Catalogue – Aleph is software that runs it)
Portal data
Going to work with a user experience expert, also looking to redesign UI
Working with council to see if can get more data
Developing a Virtual Tour of the University – iPhone and Android applications
Application is Java based; RESTful
Expose data as HTML; JSON and RDF
Data is stored in RDF store – now also support a SPARQL endpoint
Wiki at: http://mmb.ilrt.bris.ac.uk
Source code at: https://github.com/ilrt/mca