Web 2.0 Federated search

OJAX: Web 2.0 Federated search Judith Wusteman April 2007 UCD School of Information and Library Studies Scoil an Léinn Eolais agus na Leabharlannaíochta UCD Overview • Introducing OJAX • OJAX Demo • Related research Web 2.0 Technologies and Standards used in OJAX • AJAX • REST • JSON • Atom • OAI-PMH • OpenSearch • Open API • StaX • Apache Lucene http://ojax.sourceforge.net/ OJAX OJAX demo Unifying the user interface Auto-completion Auto-search Dynamic archive list Dynamic scrolling Auto-expansion of results Sorting results OpenSearch OpenSearch • Enables search engines to describe their search syntax to browsers • Describes standards for search results syntax – Based on RSS and Atom Atom feed support Accessibility Science Foundation Ireland: OJAX++: 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 • 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@ucd.ie. 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. http://ojax.sourceforge.net/