Students, researchers and web scientists came together for a hackathon-sytle meet-up hosted by Mark Musen and the team at Stanford. Post-grad researchers Ramine Tinati, Chris Phethean and Ian Brown from Southampton introduced the day with presentations of their research interests including: Social Media effectiveness for Charities, Message propgation in Social Networks and Observation – how […]
New Web Observatory Publications are available which introduce the Web Observatory The Web Science Observatory Authors: Thanassis Tiropanis, Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt, David De Roure, Noshir Contractor and Jim Hendler Abstract: The World Wide Web is the largest information fabric in history.People shop, date, trade and communicate with one another using it. Scientists and researchers […]
Professor Nigel Shadbolt, one of the world’s leading experts in Web Science and the pioneering co-founder of the Open Data Institute (ODI), has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to science and engineering. Professor Shadbolt, Head of the Web and Internet Science Group at the University of Southampton and ODI Chairman, […]
The 1st International Web Observatory Workshop WOW2013 in conjunction with WWW Conference 2013 in Rio WOW2013 will be held on May 14th 2013 in conjunction with the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 13-17th May 2013. The workshop provides a focus for the emerging Web Observatory community to share tools, […]
Steffen Stabb asks the Web Science Community to vote for the production of a massive open on-line course (MOOC) on Web Science As part of spreading the gospel of Web Science, we are in a competition to spread it addressing students from all over the world through a MOOC – a massive open online course […]
The WebSci13 Conference features in the latest issue (27Apr2013) of the New Scientist. The journalist who wrote the article was in fact triggered by the title of the paper he found in the WebSci conference program: “Voice-Based Web Access in Rural Africa”. The paper reports on a project which is giving a voice to people […]
A workshop will be held at Webscience13 on Wednesday 1 May 2013 to discuss Building Web Observatories This workshop will examine the key aims and features of a proposed web observatory which is represented by a global network of heterogeneous data repositories each acting like a virtual telescope, observing and analysing the activity on the […]
The Phil Trans A issue on ‘Web science: a new frontier’ was published on-line recently. The main Table of Contents link is http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/1987.toc.
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