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SAINT
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Creating Location-Based Services by Utilising a Web of Places
We present an open, decentralized, participatory system which realizes location-based services by gently extending the existing World Wide Web. Utilizing a geospatial search engin...
Benedikt Ostermaier, Philipp Bolliger
IEEESCC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Tourism, Peer Production, and Location-Based Service Design
This paper describes characteristics of information and service design by exploring the needs and motivations of tourists. Tourists are expected to be important and demanding user...
Eric Kansa, Erik Wilde
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Acquisition of Vernacular Place Names from Web Sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Your place or mine?: visualization as a community component
Many Eyes is a web site that provides collaborative visualization services, allowing users to upload data sets, visualize them, and comment on each other's visualizations. Th...
Catalina M. Danis, Fernanda B. Viégas, Jess...
ICWS
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Web Service Mashup Middleware with Partitioning of XML Pipelines
Traditionally, the composition of Web services to create mashups has been achieved by using an application server as a mediator between a client browser and services. To avoid thi...
Eric Wohlstadter, Peng Li, Brett Cannon