editorial

# Adapting Content for Wireless Web Services

To demonstrate how XML-based technologies let context-aware wireless Web services adapt their content to a user's situation, Motorola Labs implemented a Web-enabled museum system in Motorola's history museum in Schaumburg, Illinois. The museum premises were used in the past year to gather visitors' feedback and study user-perceived benefits of wireless Web services. Based on a visitor's context˜for example, location, information interests, and device capabilities˜the system retrieves exhibit data from a content server. The system uses the W3C's Document Object Model (DOM) "API" to generate an XML tree-like structure, and Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformations ("XSLT")1,2 to generate Wireless Markup Language ("WML") or HTML content for display on mobile devices. ...more

Posted by Geoffrey Wirth on 10/14/03; 5:10:48 AM
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# Exposed Content in the Web

• "MIT" made headlines worldwide by promising to make freely available materials from its courses in the OpenCourseWare ("OCW") project.
• The UT Austin Knowledge Gateway Initiative is aimed at providing digital Knowledge to all Texans.
• The Museums and the Online Archive of California is aimed at "providing access to collections held by archives, museums, and libraries throughout the state of California."

# University, Library, and Museum Content Meets XML, Web Services, and "P2P"

Making content available is only the first step in a long process in how universities, libraries, and museums can share their knowledge. Right now, users can look at digital content (texts, images, video) but cannot easily handle them as malleable, reusable pieces that work together regardless of data type or data origin. ...more

Posted by Geoffrey Wirth on 10/14/03; 4:58:06 AM
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