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Web 2.0 Technologies and design strategies for robust online applications

Robert Stein and Charlie Moad

Wednesday Afternoon April 11th

This workshop will give attendees a detailed look at the underlying web technologies and design strategies that are fueling some of the most popular online applications today. We will examine a variety of web2.0 technologies and standards with an emphasis on designing your own applications to take advantage of this quickly developing field.

Topics to be covered include:

XML: The basis of online applications.

AJAX: Maintaining interactivity for data intensive applications.

Javascript engines for dynamic user interfaces.

The How and Why of Web Services? (SOAP / REST)

Web Application Frameworks (Django, Rails, Zope, others)

Does Object Oriented Software Design apply to the web?

Designing for and using web APIs from Google, Yahoo, Amazon, etc?

Taking advantage of community tools from Flickr, YouTube, del.icio.us and others

Web developers attending this workshop will be left with a comprehensive understanding of how a variety of technologies can fit together to form compelling applications. In addition to a high level discussion of software architecture and design strategies, detailed code examples will be provided for attendees to use as a seed in developing their own engaging online applications. The workshop will also provide links to a variety of open source tools and software environments to speed your development efforts. Ample time for questions and discussion will be given as well.

Link to Slides (~3MB)

Link to Sample Code (~88KB)

Abstract:

The advent of online mapping and the increased access to satellite maging has sparked the development of several interesting tools for interacting with these high resolution images and datasets directly from our desktops. Mashups using maps from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and many others have become popular ways to look at a variety of information from housing to police reports and online dating. Can we use these tools to communicate about museum objects and their relationship to geography? Global Origins or G.O. is a tool built on top of a 3D mapping system from NASA called WorldWind. G.O. is
designed as a presentation platform for museum objects that can display narration and imagery in a geographic context provided by WorldWind. Designed originally to support art museums, G.O. can be extended to support any type of museum object by authoring a simple XML document. In this demonstration we will show the Global Origins tool and two different sets of museum objects.  We will also describe it's use at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and how it can be easily extended to support new types of objects as well.

Rob Stein and Charlie Moad will demonstrate the Global Origins project in the morning on Saturday April 14th

Please Download and Install WorldWind version 1.4+ from here.

WorldWind-1.4 requires the latest DirectX Runtime

GlobalOrigins Installation Instructions

Download GlobalOrigins for WorldWind-1.4

Okay, so there really weren’t many blog entries from our experiences in Rome and Paris.  We tried and our intentions were good, but things happen, like – shooting hours upon hours of HD footage, overnight train adventures to Paris (without an internet connection), behind the scenes access at the Louvre, exclusive interviews with our director Maxwell Anderson at the Forum, good food and sleeping. 

The Roman Art Webisode Team – myself, Dan Dark, Meg Liffick, Despi Mayes and Roseanne Winings are working on a recap of the trip to post.  Stay tuned for this, images and upcoming video.