The web around the corner

Carboni, Davide; Piras, A.; Sanna, Stefano; Giroux, Sylvain

doi:10.1145/1013367.1013454

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“…With regard to the integration of location‐awareness and the web, the concrete research is still limited, but is getting more and more attention. GPSWeb (Carboni et al , 2004), aiming to provide GPS support for web browsers, introduces the concept of location‐based browsing and proposes to use the location as a new metadata in HTTP requests. Its implementation is based on a modified Mozilla web browser and a listener object written in Javascript which observes any new HTTP request and adds the location information to the headers of the request.…”

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Enable web‐based tracking and guiding by integrating location‐awareness with the world wide web

Zhou

2008

Campus-Wide Information Systems

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PurposeThe aim of this research is to enable web‐based tracking and guiding by integrating location‐awareness with the Worldwide Web so that the users can use various location‐based applications without installing extra software.Design/methodology/approachThe concept of web‐based tracking and guiding is introduced and the relevant issues are discussed regarding location‐aware web systems, location determination, location‐dependent content query and personalized presentation. The framework of the web‐based tracking and guiding system – the Web‐Based Guide is proposed, and its prototypical implementation is presented. The main design principles are making use of existing web technologies, making use of available and cheap devices, general‐purpose and lightweight client‐side, and good scalability.FindingsThe paper presents the general‐purpose and modular framework of the Web‐Based Guide, which consists of the Location Server, the Content Server, the Guiding Web Server and the clients which are standard web browsers extended with the Location Control. With such a framework, location‐based applications can offer the services on the web.Research limitations/implicationsThe performance of the system should be evaluated and improved, such as the number of the concurrent sessions that the system can sustain, and the workload on the system when in the tracking mode.Originality/valueThe paper proposes a framework for personalized tracking and guiding systems on the web, which can be used in campuses, museums, national parks and so on.

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Enable web‐based tracking and guiding by integrating location‐awareness with the world wide web

Zhou

2008

Campus-Wide Information Systems

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Location-Based Botany Guide: A Prototype of Web-Based Tracking and Guiding

Zhou

Schneider

2009

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

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The locative web

Wilde

Kofahl

2008

Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Location and the Web

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The concept of location has become very popular in many applications on the Web, in particular for those which aim at connecting the real world with resources on the Web. However, the Web as it is today has no overall location concept, which means that applications have to introduce their own location concepts and have done so in incompatible ways. By turning the Web into a location-aware Web, which we call the "Locative Web", location-oriented applications get better support for their location concepts on the Web, and the Web becomes an information system where locationrelated information can be more easily shared across different applications and application areas. We describe a location concept for the Web supporting different location types, its embedding into some of the Web's core technologies, and prototype implementations of these concepts in location-enabled Web components.

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The web around the corner

Cited by 5 publications

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Enable web‐based tracking and guiding by integrating location‐awareness with the world wide web

Enable web‐based tracking and guiding by integrating location‐awareness with the world wide web

Location-Based Botany Guide: A Prototype of Web-Based Tracking and Guiding

The locative web

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