The Locative Web
Erik Wilde and Martin Kofahl
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The Locative Web,
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2008), Beijing, China, April 2008
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 location-related 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.
