Scoil an Léinn Eolais agus na Leabharlannaíochta UCD UCD School of Information and Library Studies OJAX: Web 2.0 Federated search Judith Wusteman April 2007

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

OJAX

OJAX demo

Unifying the user interface

Auto-completion Auto-search Dynamic archive list

Dynamic scrolling

Auto-expansion of results

Sorting results

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.

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.