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As part of the Balinese culture, Balinese script has rarely been used today. Its Balinese-to-Latin script transliteration knowledge is also affected by that condition and has caused concern over the threat of the extinction. This study is aimed to preserve that knowledge through technological approach by collaboration between Information Technology and Balinese Language discipline. This research analyzed ubiquitous learning aspect of Balinese-to-Latin script transliteration as part of Balinese Language education, which is a mandatory local subject from basic to high school in Bali Province. This analysis was conducted on Balinese Glyph Recognition (BalineseGR) web application that was developed as a technology product of Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha (Undiksha), Indonesia. BalineseGR is basically a sort of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) web application that receive Balinese script image and output Latin text. It was considered as the first Balinese-to-Latin script transliteration web application and its initial development has covered transliteration knowledge of eighteen Balinese script-s basic syllable only. Since ubiquitous learning is supported by mobile computer through wireless network, and it is aimed to provide learners with content and interaction anytime and anywhere, BalineseGR web application has several aspects to enhance, i.e.: 1) its counterpart mobile application where image input not only from file but also more useful directly from camera; and 2) richer knowledge content, including transliteration of the vowels, Akśara Şwalalita, sound killers (Pangangge Tengenan), consonant killers (Pangangge Tengenan), numerals, punctuations, ligatures, and miscellaneous glyph.