WebUnify: An Ontology-based Web Site Organization and Publication Platform for Device Adaptation

Creating a web site for variant devices is an important work in ubiquitous computing. This paper, based on ontology and semantic web, proposed a device adaptive web site model, named WebUnify. WebUnify is composed of three parts---WWW Server, Content Server and Web Site Creation. With CC/PP protocol, WWW Server can recognize different kinds of device profiles and generate variant requests to Content Server, and then, the returned content, which is expressed as XML, is transferred into the device adaptive format document by XSLT with the device’s XSL description. During the course above, Content Server generates adaptive content according to WSDA algorithm and web site ontology. At mean time, WebUnify platform provides a ontology-based web site authoring tools by improving Protégé tools. At last, a practical web site is built on WebUnify.