mobile access to natural history legacy literature
Scope
Enhancing the access to the legacy literature via mobile internet devices is not only a cool thing to do but could also support researchers in the field. This page is meant to facilitate an open discussion on the subject and can include: QR codes, smart phones, tabloit computers, dedicated e-reading devices, operating systems, file formats, Apps, etc.
Comments Welcome!
What we need
- Methodology / use cases:
- a) Scientist who knows exactly which document he needs and wants to see if the full text is in Euroeana to load on his device
- b) Student who needs to do a literature research and wants to search for themes and authors and scan through the documents and save them or bookmark them to read later.
- c) One should also want to bulk download documents but that can be included in a) or b)
- d) Perhaps a "social user" who wants to use the "share" and "annotate" functions.
- Devices: Kindle Keyboard (Boris, RMCA), Android Magic (Boris, RMCA), Android Tablet (Isabelle, RMCA), iPad (SIL / Henning, MFN), others?
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