Author Archives: Alex Dutton

The open-sourcing of Mobile Oxford

March 4, 2010 – 3:48 pm

The open-sourcing of Mobile Oxford has begun in earnest. On our list of things to do we have choosing a license, producing documentation, and splitting out the Oxford-specific parts.
To differentiate between the Oxford instance and the code it’s running on we’ve decided to call the project Molly.
Licensing
We’re as yet unsure as to which license we’ll [...]

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Live bus locations from ACIS/OxonTime

March 4, 2010 – 10:59 am

I spent a day a little while back investigating how to get the raw data behind OxonTime’s live bus locations. Here’s how it works.
Please be aware that what follows is the result of a purely academic investigation, and that before using this information it may be worth contacting Oxfordshire County Council to discuss your plans, [...]

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Interview about the Erewhon project at the JISC Rapid Innovation conference

September 4, 2009 – 12:45 pm

I’m currently at the Rapid Innovation conference in Manchester, talking about the Erewhon project and forging links with others approaching similar problems.
Highlights so far include:

Jasper Tredgold from the University of Bristol was great to talk to about their upcoming Mobile Campus Assistant
Peter Pratt from the University of Edinburgh talked about Walking Through Time, which uses [...]

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Feature Ideas for the new Mobile Portal

July 7, 2009 – 8:17 am

We’re currently working out what kind of features we’d like to present to users (both staff and students) on the up-and-coming mobile portal. At the moment we have the following ideas (in no particular order of priority):

Contact search – This could possibly be location-based, e.g. “Find all lodge / reception numbers for buildings that are [...]

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