Congratulations to Sir Tim-Berners Lee for featuring in the Olympic Opening Ceremony. Web Scientists will have no troubling identifying Sir Tim Berners-Lee as the inventor of the World Wide Web and also a founder of the Web Science Trust. As the BBC pointed out, it seems slightly ironic that the NBC anchors commenting on the […]
The Web observatory is an exciting concept but it is difficult for a newcomer to get their head around what it means. To help, researchers at Southampton University have prototyped a Registry of Open Access Repositories which might be thought of as an example local node of a larger observatory which tracks the publication of […]
We are pleased to announce The Web Economy: Goods, Users, Models, and Policies By Michalis Vafopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) In this survey report, Michalis Vafopoulos seeks firstly to analyse how the web economy differs from traditional settings and what the implications of these differences are and secondly to formalize a minimal common understanding […]
Thanassis Tiropanis provided this helpful definition of the Web Observatory; The Web Observatory project aims at mobilising the wider research community to create a distributed archive of data on the Web and its activity, and, at the same time, mechanisms and tools that will be able to explore its development in the past, to examine […]
The Web Science Trust was asked by the Nominet Trust to author a report on the impact of Open Data on Charities. This report, written by Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt, Thanassis Tiropanis, Kieron O’Hara and Tim Davies, reviews open data as it relates to the charitable sector. It draws on long experience of developing open […]
WCU is a national initiative for the future growth engines of Korea. IT industry, a core growth power, moves its center of gravity from hardware to software and academia needs to comply with it by changing its educational paradigm and more focusing on software sector. In accordance with the initiative, the division of web science […]
The vision of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute is to be recognised as one of the leading international web science research institutes interlinking technologies, information and people to advance business and benefit society. Lab Director: Stefan Decker Web Site: Digital Enterprise Research Group Web Site
The Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (CNetS) is part of the School of Informatics and Computing and the Pervasive Technology Institute of Indiana University. The center supports and enhances the research efforts of the complex systems group, which has been active within the School since 2004. CNetS is meant to foster interdisciplinary research […]
Lab Director: Daniel Schwabe Web Site: Brazilian Institute for Web Science Research