Features

Contact search

Search your University's contact directory to retrieve e-mail addresses, phone numbers and locations. Molly comes with out-of-the-box support for LDAP directories, and demonstrator providers for the University of Oxford's contact search.

Library search

Molly can interface with library information systems using the Z39.50 protocol, 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.

Podcasts

Provide access to your University's audio-visual media with our existing support for OPML feeds.

Places and maps

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 OpenStreetMap and the NaPTAN database, and can easily be extended to pull data from any local information sources.

News and events

Molly provides simple support for displaying news and events from RSS feeds, including maps of venues where available.

Service status

Show the status of your IT infrastructure, with built-in support for the Service Status RSS module, and demonstrator connectors to other RSS-based service status providers.

Integrated search

Site-wide search, powered by a Google Search Appliance or any other search engine. Molly applications can also deliver relevant results, allowing for example, the detection of ISBNs and automatic library catalogue searches.

Sakai integration

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

Pluggable authentication

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.

Molly currently supports WebAuth and acting as an OAuth consumer, allowing you to limit the trust requirements in your implementation.