The REST approach was developed to describe the architecture of distributed resource access, such as the WEB. REST in comparison with WS_*stack works with the Web rather than against it and is getting increasing support of not only from developers but also from vendors. This paper explains the philosophy of REST and highlights its simplicity in accessing resources.

Invocations of pure and applied science journals in the Web were analysed, focussing on commercial sites, in order to assess whether the Web can yield useful information about university-industry knowledge transfer. On a macro level, evidence was found that applied research was more highly invoked on the non-academic Web than pure research, but only in one of the two fields studied. On a micro ...

In present day’s world of globalisation, institutions are not only fostering the formation of graduates able to operate in one location or country but desires to produce the global engineer equipped with the right knowledge and skills able to operate in any part of the world. A lot of online resources have been developed and are made freely available on the World Wide Web (web). Some of these h...

Documents on the Web can be composed of multiple Web pages, suggesting the need to consider how linking between pages affects a document’s form. We illustrate this point by considering patterns of linking in a common genre of document, the Frequently Asked Questions file or FAQ. In a sample of 70 FAQs, we found four patterns of linking: no links, links within the page, links to pages on the sam...

The current Web technology is not suitable for representing knowledge nor sharing it among organizations over the Web. There is a rapidly increasing need for exchanging and linking knowledge over the Web, especially when several sellers and buyers come together on the Web to form a virtual marketplace. This paper explains an infrastructure that enables sharing of knowledge over the Web and thus...

The next-generation Web will increase the need for a highly organized and ever evolving method to store references to Web objects. These requirements could be realized by the development of a new bookmark structure. This paper endeavors to identify the key requirements of such a bookmark, specifically in relation to Web documents, and sets out a suggested design through which these needs may be...

This study (Keeping Found Things Found KFTF) investigated the methods that people use in their workplace to re-access web information. People were observed using many different methods to keep web information for later use including the use of Bookmarks (or Favorites), self-addressed email, hand-written notes, and paper print-outs. Each keeping method provided a range of functions but none of t...

In one study, people are observed to keep web information for later use through many different methods including the use of Bookmarks (or Favorites), self-addressed email, hand-written notes, and paper print-outs. Each keeping method realizes its own constellation of important features or functions. No observed method provides all desired functions. .A simple “Add Favorite 2” prototype is devel...

In this position paper, we describe our vision of the evolution of the Web: the Active Web. We argue for a phased view of Web evolution, describing some trends seen in development so far. We then describe the social, contentious and dynamic nature of human knowledge and show how this may be developed into a principled road map for Web development. We finish by describing a selection of usage sc...

na získanie vedecko-akademickej hodnosti philosophiae doctor vo vednom odbore: 25-21-9 Počítačové prostriedky a systémy Bratislava, december 2008