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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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	"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
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	<title>Molly | The open source mobile portal</title>

	<meta name="description" content="Molly is a framework for the rapid development of information and service portals targeted at mobile internet devices."/>
    <meta name="copyright" content="This site's design and contents Copyright (c) 2010 University of Oxford and contributors."/>
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		<h1><img alt="Molly" src="images/molly-logo.png" width="138" height="91" /></h1>
		<p>The open source mobile portal</p>
		<ul>
                    <li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=309230">Mailing Lists</a></li>
                    <li><a href="http://molly.readthedocs.org/">Documentation</a></li>
                    <li><a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#molly">IRC Channel</a></li>
                    <li><a href="http://github.com/mollyproject/mollyproject">Git Repository</a></li>
                    <li><a href="http://travis-ci.org/#!/mollyproject/mollyproject">Continuous Integration</a></li>
                    <li><a href="http://issues.mollyproject.org/">Issue Tracker</a></li>
                    <li><a href="http://blog.mollyproject.org">Blog</a></li>
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                <ul class="navigation">
                    <li><a href=".">About Molly</a></li>
                    <li><a href="features.html">Features</a></li>
                    <li><a href="community.html">Community</a></li>

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			<h2>Features</h2>
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			<dl>
	          <dt>Contact search</dt>
	          <dd><p>
	            Search your University's contact directory to retrieve e-mail
	            addresses, phone numbers and locations. Molly comes with
	            out-of-the-box support for <strong><abbr title="Lightweight
	            Directory Access Protocol">LDAP</abbr> directories</strong>, and
	            demonstrator providers for the University of Oxford's contact search.
	          </p></dd>

	          <dt>Library search</dt>
	          <dd><p>
	            Molly can interface with library information systems using the
	            <strong>Z39.50 protocol</strong>, providing a simplified search to
	            cover most use-cases for people on the move. We intend to support
	            access to systems with other interfaces in the near future.
	          </p></dd>

	          <dt>Podcasts</dt>
	          <dd><p>
	            Provide access to your University's audio-visual media with our
	            existing support for <strong><abbr title="Outline Processor Markup
	            Language">OPML</abbr> feeds</strong>.
	          </p></dd>

	          <dt>Places and maps</dt>
	          <dd><p>
	            Display University buildings, restaurants, bus stops and whatever
	            else is important to your staff and students. Molly comes with
	            support for importing points of interest information from
	            <strong>OpenStreetMap</strong> and <strong>the <abbr
	            title="National Public Transport Access Node">NaPTAN</abbr>
	            database</strong>, and can easily be extended to pull data from
	            any local information sources.
	          </p></dd>

	          <dt>News and events</dt>
	          <dd><p>
	            Molly provides simple support for displaying news and events from
	            RSS feeds, including maps of venues where available.
	          </p></dd>
			</dl>
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			<dl>
	          <dt>Service status</dt>
	          <dd><p>
	            Show the status of your IT infrastructure, with built-in support for
	            the <strong>Service Status <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr> module</strong>, and demonstrator
	            connectors to other RSS-based service status providers.
	          </p></dd>

	          <dt>Integrated search</dt>
	          <dd><p>
	            Site-wide search, powered by a <strong>Google Search
	            Appliance</strong> or any other search engine. Molly applications
	            can also deliver relevant results, allowing for example, the
	            detection of <abbr title="International Standard Book Number">ISBN</abbr>s
	            and automatic library catalogue searches.
	          </p></dd>

	          <dt>Sakai integration</dt>
	          <dd>
	            <p>
	            Molly can currently act as an interface to your <strong>Sakai</strong>
	            installation, providing access to the <strong>sign-up</strong>,
                <strong>evaluations</strong> and <strong>polls</strong> tools.
                Further integration is currently under development.
	            </p>
	          </dd>

	          <dt>Pluggable authentication</dt>
	          <dd>
	            <p>
	              Molly's authentication framework allows you to secure any
	              application using whatever method suits, even allowing you to mix
	              and match, depending on your environment.
	            </p>
	            <p>
	              Molly currently supports <strong>WebAuth</strong> and acting as
	              an <strong>OAuth consumer</strong>, allowing you to limit the
	              trust requirements in your implementation.
	            </p>
	          </dd>
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                        <h2>Other links</h2>
                        <h3>Press and social media coverage</h3>
                        <ul>
                            <li>
                            <a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=408716">
                                <em>Times Higher Education</em> article
                            </a>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                            <a href="http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1515">
                                <em>University Business</em> article
                            </a>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                            <a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/091012.html">
                                <em>University of Oxford</em> press release
                            </a>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                            <a href="http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2009_oct_23">
                                <em>Bodleian Libraries</em> press release
                            </a>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                            <a href="http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/mobile-website-oxford-university/">
                                <em>Don't Waste Your Time</em> eLearning Blog
                            </a>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                            <a href="http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/12/10/oxford-universitys-mobile-library-catalog-using-location-sensing-technology/">
                                <em>Resource Shelf</em> newsletter
                            </a>
                            </li>
                        </ul>

                        <h3>Awards / Nominations</h3>
                        <ul>
                            <li>
                            <a href="http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/members/awards/excellence.aspx">
                            Winner - 2010 UCISA Award for Excellence (by Eduserv)</a>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                            <a href="http://www.learningwithoutfrontiers.com/lwf-awards-finalists-2011/">
                            Finalist - 2011 Learning Without Frontiers Innovation</a>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                            <a href="http://www.wsa-mobile.org/">
                            UK Nomination - 2010 UN World Summit Award, Mobile</a>
                            </li>
                        </ul>

                        <h3>Contributors</h3>
                        <ul>
                            <li>
                            <a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/">University of Oxford</a>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                            <a href="http://www.brookes.ac.uk/">Oxford Brookes University</a>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                            <a href="http://www.bangor.ac.uk/">Bangor University</a>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                            <a href="http://www.sgul.ac.uk/">St George's University of London</a>
                            </li>
                            <li>
                            Lots of individuals (<a href="http://github.com/mollyproject/mollyproject">Github</a>/<a href="https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=309230">Mailing lists</a>/<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#molly">IRC</a>)
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