OJAX: Web 2.0 Federated search

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OJAX Web 2.0 Federated search

• Judith Wusteman
• April 2007

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Overview

• Introducing OJAX
• OJAX Demo
• Related research

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Web 2.0 Technologies and Standardsused in OJAX

• AJAX
• REST
• JSON
• Atom
• OAI-PMH
• OpenSearch
• Open API
• StaX
• Apache Lucene

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http//ojax.sourceforge.net/
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OJAX
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OJAX demo
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Unifying the user interface
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Auto-completionAuto-searchDynamic archive list
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Dynamic scrolling
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Auto-expansion of results
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Sorting results
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OpenSearch
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OpenSearch

• Enables search engines to describe their search
  syntax to browsers
• Describes standards for search results syntax
• Based on RSS and Atom

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Atom feed support
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Accessibility
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Science Foundation IrelandOJAX a next
generation collaborative research tool

• To investigate how concepts from the Social Web
  can be applied to the research environment in
  order to facilitate dynamic collaboration and the
  sharing of ideas among researchers.

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PhD starting September 2007

• In collaboration with
• UCD School of Computer Science and
  Informatics
• Requirements
• Honours degree (preferably first class or 2.1)
• in Computer Science or a related field
• or equivalent technical expertise
• Preferred Experience
• Web technology
• JavaScript
• AJAX
• one of Java, Ruby or Python.
• http//www.ucd.ie/wusteman
• judith.wusteman_at_ucd.ie.

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Advantages of OJAX

• Developed in Ireland. Can be adapted to suit.
• Already in Beta version. Available for download.
• Well received
• Responds to new user expectations generated by
  Web 2.0
• Rich, dynamic user experience.
• Intuitive interface.
• Integration, interoperability and reuse.
• Open source standards-compliance.
• including OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, StAX
• and Apache Lucene.

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http//ojax.sourceforge.net/