OJAX: A Web 2'0 search user interface

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OJAX A Web 2.0 search user interface

• Judith Wusteman
• March 2007

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Overview

• Web 2.0 technologies
• Introducing OJAX
• OJAX Demo
• Related research

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What is Web 2.0?Ideas, technologies and
implicationsfor education

• Paul Anderson
• JISC Technology and Standards Watch, Feb. 2007
• Special focus on
• collection and preservation activities within
  libraries
• http//www.jisc.ac.uk/techwatch

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Key Web 2.0 services/applications Paul
Anderson

• Blogs, wikis
• Tagging and social bookmarking
• Multimedia sharing
• Audio blogging and podcasting
• RSS and syndication
• Newer services
• Social networking
• Aggregation services
• Mash-ups
• Tracking, collaborating
• Replicating office-style software in the
  browser

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Web 2.0 Technologies and Standardsused in OJAX

• RIA Rich Internet Applications
• REST
• JSON
• Atom
• OAI-PMH
• OpenSearch
• Open API
• StaX
• Apache Lucene

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RIA Rich Internet Applications

• Flash
• AJAX

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Flash
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Ajax

• Asynchronous JavaScript XML
• Dont have to wait for an entire web page to be
  downloaded after every user action
• A general approach to the development of
  interactive Web applications

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Diagram of ajax? More explanation of ajax
Jesse James Garrett, 2005
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AJAX Applications
Ajax Applications
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AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript And XML

• XML
• lt?xml version"1.0" encoding"ISO-8859-1" ?gt
• ltlistYearsResponsegt
• ltresponse type"object" id"availableYearsList
  "gt
• ltoption value"1950"gt1950lt/optiongt
• ltoption value"1953"gt1953lt/optiongt
• lt/responsegt
• lt/listYearsResponsegt
• JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
• "reson","resonance","resonator","resonant","reso
  nating","resonators"

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Atom and RSS
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Reading feeds via Thunderbird
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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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SFIOJAX 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.
• PhD starting September 2007
• Interested? Please contact 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/