Accessing the World Wide Web via mobile end devices is increasing steadily. Mobile access is limitedby device properties and radio networks. In the past, software developers responded to this by specialstandards for a special mobile web: WAP, HDML, WML, C-HTML and XHTML-MP. However, theWorld...

Meanwhile, standard mobile phones are able to run applications which can be installed additionally tothose provided by the network operators. These applications can be used for various purposes - onepossibility is to use mobile phones for guiding persons on unknown territory. Mobile phones...

Mobility, understood as the possibility to move around, is an important part of human life. Sociologistshave even called mobility a vital principle for the individual and society. Mobility needs may besatisfied in several ways: independently by motorized and non-motorized individual traffic, by...

Among the financing strategies available for Open Access (OA), the author-paysbusiness model has received increasing attention. The consequences of this approach,however, for the system of scholarly communication and for publishing houses asparticipants in value added, have remained largely...

Currently, Semantic Web approaches play an important role in the discussion of knowledgemanagement. Metadata, which contains formal machine-readable information about contents,is added to resources in order to enable machines to access resources which are otherwiseonly understandable to human...

Produkte bzw. Leistungen der Medienbranche lassen sich vollständig digitalisieren und in digitalisierter Form distribuieren. Hierdurch ist die Medienbranche wie kaum eine andere von Innovationen der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik tangiert. Das vom BMBF im Rahmen des Schwerpunktes...