Title of Primary Project Output

List8D is an innovative user-focused Web 2.0 approach to creating and consuming university reading lists. External information sources are used to minimise data entry and provide direct links to library catalogues and other online sources.

Screenshots or diagram of prototype

The first screenshot is a photoshop mockup of the UI that we are working toward. The rest are as the prototype currently is now.

Description of Prototype

The prototype is still very much a work in progress, but we hope it is starting to show some of the ideas we want to build upon. We’ve aimed to build a very flexible system that can deal with many data sources and list/item types while continuing to be easy to use, and we feel we’ve succeeded at that.

It’s difficult to see this from the prototype, but we hope this will become more apparent as work progresses in future.

Link to working prototype

Example screenshots are shown above.

There is a demonstration “list8D in a box” Virtual Machine using the free VirtualBox available to download here. It is a large file (1.2GB) , and requires the virtualbox software, but it does give you a completely self-contained environment in which to play with list8D.

Link to end user documentation

• http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/list8d/elevator-pitch/
• http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/list8d/2009/05/20/what-is-list8d/

Link to code repository or API

• http://code.google.com/p/list8d/source/checkout

Link to technical documentation

• http://code.google.com/p/list8d/w/list

Date prototype was launched

• Release 1 was tagged for release on 2nd of November 2009.
• Release 2 was tagged for release on the 30th of November 2009.

Project Team Names, Emails and Organisations

• Matt Bull <M.Bull@kent.ac.uk>
• Ben Charlton <B.C.Charlton@kent.ac.uk>
• Mark Fendley <M.S.Fendley@kent.ac.uk>
• Bonnie Ferguson <B.Ferguson@kent.ac.uk>
• Matthew Slowe <M.Slowe@kent.ac.uk>
• Matthew Spence <M.S.A.Spence@kent.ac.uk>
• Simon Yeldon <S.J.Yeldon@kent.ac.uk>

– All University of Kent staff.

Project Website

• http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/list8d
• http://code.google.com/p/list8d/

PIMS entry

• https://pims.jisc.ac.uk/projects/view/1392

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