Towards Mobile Enhanced Digital Collections

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Towards Mobile Enhanced Digital Collections
Tito Sierra and Markus WustNCSU LibrariesThe
Second International m-Libraries ConferenceJune
24, 2009
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Outline

• Mobile Computing Past and Present
• Mobile Enhanced Digital Collections
• The WolkWalk Project
• Motivation
• Demo
• Implementation
• Future Directions

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Mobile Computing Past and Present
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Source Flickr user ted.sali
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23rd Century Star Trek Tricorder
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Source Flickr user clarksworth
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24th Century Star Trek Tricorder
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Source Flickr user jeffypoo
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1960s Star Trek Tricorder

• Location scanners
• Data communication (to/from starship)
• Holographic messaging
• Touch screen interface
• Universal translator (alien languages)

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1960s Star Trek Tricorder

• Location scanners
• Data communication (to/from starship)
• Holographic messaging
• Touch screen interface
• Universal translator (alien languages)
• SCIENCE FICTION

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1960s Star Trek Tricorder

• Location scanners
• Data communication (to/from starship)
• Holographic messaging
• Touch screen interface
• Universal translator (alien languages)
• Early model for mobile computing?

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fast forward 40 years
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2009 Apple iPhone 3G S
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The Future is Now

• Star Trek Tricorder
• Location scanners
• Data communication (to/from starship)
• Holographic messaging
• Touch screen interface
• Universal translator (alien languages)

• Apple iPhone 3G
• Assisted GPS
• Data communication (3G and wifi)
• MMS messaging
• Touch screen interface
• Multi-lingual support (human languages)

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iPhone 3G S

• Camera
• Audio microphone
• Digital Compass
• Accelerometer
• Photo and video geotagging

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iPhone 3G S

• Camera
• Audio microphone
• Digital Compass
• Accelerometer
• Photo and video geotagging
• Marketplace for 3rd party apps

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• Todays mobile computing technology provides a
  rich toolset for significantly enhancing the user
  experience with library digital collections

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Mobile Enhanced Digital Collections
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Mobile Enhanced DCs

• More than just a small screen version of an
  existing digital collection

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Mobile Enhanced DCs

• More than just a small screen version of an
  existing digital collection
• Leverages emerging mobile technology to create
  new and improved interfaces to digital collections

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Mobile Enhanced DCs

• More than just a small screen version of an
  existing digital collection
• Leverages emerging mobile technology to create
  new and improved interfaces to digital
  collections
• Reduce the disconnect between user and object
  brought about by digitization

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Two Basic Technologies

• Touch-based Interfaces
• Geotagging Geolocation

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Touch-based Interfaces

• Swipe gesture
• Interact directly with digital objects
• Example Classics

Source iTunes App Store
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Touch-based Interfaces

• Swipe gesture
• Interact directly with digital objects
• Example Classics

Source iTunes App Store
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Touch-based Interfaces

• Pinch and zoom
• Fluid interface for navigating image details
• Example Love Art National Gallery, London

Source iTunes App Store
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Touch-based Interfaces

• Pinch and zoom
• Fluid interface for navigating image details
• Example Love Art National Gallery, London

Source iTunes App Store
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DukeMobile Library Collections
Source news.duke.com
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Geotagging Geolocation

• Geographic navigation of content
• Current location as as a content filter
• Example Zillow

Source iTunes App Store
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Geotagging Geolocation

• Geographic navigation of content
• Current location as as a content filter
• Example Around Me

Source iTunes App Store
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The WolfWalk Project
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WolfWalk in a Nutshell

• Our first attempt to create a geomobile digital
  collection
• Images sourced from university archives
  collection
• iPhone app to be released Fall 2009

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WolfWalk Content
First freshman class posing in front of Holladay
Hall (1890), NCSU University Archives Photo
Collection
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WolfWalk Content
View of card catalog in D.H. Hill Library (1972),
NCSU University Archives Photo Collection
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Motivation
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Todd Kosmerick (University Archivist) and Adam
Berenbak, NCSU Special Collections Research Center
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Markus Wust, Content Lead for the WolfWalk Project
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Jason Casden, Lead Developer for the WolfWalk
Project
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Demo
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Implementation
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Content Workflow

• Select sites to be included
• Select images from existing digital image
  collection to represent sites
• Author site descriptions
• Author image descriptions
• Enter content in database
• Generate image derivatives

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Technology

• WolfWalk Database (MySQL)
• WolfWalk Data Service (PHP/XHTML)
• iPhone OS 3.0 (Objective-C)
• MapKit Framework (Google Maps)
• CoreLocation Framework (geolocation)

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Geodata Processing
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Lessons Learned

• Not easy to repurpose existing image metadata
  (dates, descriptions)

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Lessons Learned

• Not easy to repurpose existing image metadata
  (dates, descriptions)
• Mobile application development is different from
  website development (installed vs. networked
  content)

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Lessons Learned

• Not easy to repurpose existing image metadata
  (dates, descriptions)
• Mobile application development is different from
  website development (installed vs. networked
  content)
• Rapidly evolving development environment (maps)

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Future Directions
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Augmented Reality

• Live camera
• Compass
• Geotagged content
• Example Layar (Google Android)

Source Layar.eu
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Source Layar.eu
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• Recent advances in mobile computing are truly
  amazing.
• Experiment!

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Thanks!

• Tito Sierra
• Associate Head for Digital Library Development
• NCSU Libraries
• tito_sierra_at_ncsu.edu
• Markus Wust
• Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian
• NCSU Libraries
• markus_wust_at_ncsu.edu

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More Information

• The WolfWalk Project
• http//www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/projects/wolfwalk