CHOI KY & KU KMHKU Libraries

Starting September 2005, we no longer stamp due dates on books or other materials checked out from the University Libraries.

‘ I have not received any reminder from you. You MUST waive my fine!’

It was a part of the PDA@hand project ;

It was a project in Dec 2005 To ‘push’ overdue information/HKUL

events to their PDAs/MP3s

Why OutLook? Almost ALL PDAs/MP3s use Outlook

as an agent for PIM Synchronization.

Nov 2002 -- MyLibrary Portal

Oct 2003 – MyLibrary@HandCirculation record on Palm

Nov 2004 Circulation record on PocketPC (beta)

Nov 2005MyLibrary Outlook Addin

Oct2006MyLibrary Outlook Addin

Oct 2006Tested Innovative’s ‘My Record Feed’

it only shows “X Materials due soon" without showing the due date and information of each item

NOT USEFUL!

Either

1. By doing review file periodically ;Cons: not real-time; overloads III server

2. Mashup (web 2.0 terminology!!!!) Cons: not a formal method to obtain

information; it doesn’t work whenever webpac changes

A Servlet to simulate user’s access to ‘view circulation record’

http://wireless.lib.hku.hk:8080/palmgw/index.jsp?USER=<XXXXX>&PASS=<YYYY>&ACTION=DATEBOOK

Circulation Info is converted to an intermediate record format:

III is a closed system ; Difficult to get useful information to

build apps ; The only ‘interface (API)’ to III’s data

is ‘review file’ & PatronAPI ($$$$) ; We want to do more , but how?

Facebook provides an excellent case study here.

Facebook becomes famous and hot after they released their API to public;

A lot of people (not exactly programmers) have built thousands of apps shared among users;

a US$15billion company !

YES, if and only if Innovative :

• releases API freely ;

• Opens their System ;

• Helps IUG members to develop Apps;

• Encourages IUG members to share their Apps;

It was a 2005 project ; It works on Outlook 2002, 2003, 2007 under Windows .NET framework 1.1 (current version is 3.X)

Rewrite entirely the addin for Outlook 2007 Human resource ?

Recommendations:• Use iCalendar protocol instead• DO NOT miss Mr. LI Yiu-On ’s presentation

tomorrow

Installation• MSI package

Features• Calendar Events• Alerts

Supports on variety platforms• Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista

(Dot NET Framework 1.1 required)• Microsoft Outlook 2000, XP, 2003, 2007