Please see below Important Dates for ACM WebSci 2015, 28 June – 1 July, University of Oxford 9 January Call for Workshops 6 February Workshop Proposals deadline 16 February Workshop decisions notified 20 March Paper Submissions 27 March Poster Submissions 30 April Paper/Poster Notifications 15 May Paper/Poster Camera-ready
Our members and partners who have shared information about the systems, datasets and groups that are working with Web Observatories are now part of an automated discovery process (or “crawl”) using schema.org. The results of this crawl are now available here
Five years ago, the Web Science Trust (WST) was established as a UK charitable trust. Since then we have launched the WST Network of Laboratories (WSTNet) – a prestigious academic group comprising leading Web Science groups globally. We have coordinated, promoted and developed Web Science internationally through a number of high-profile activities, workshops and events, […]
The essence of taking part in the Web Observatory is three-fold: Describe some/all of your web datasets, projects, and/or tools in metadata Maintain a service to notify other systems/crawlers of the metadata Participate in ongoing discussions to continue to advance the scope and quality of the Web Observatory eco-system The sharing can be done in a […]
This monograph presents Health Web Science as a sub-discipline of Web Science that, while being concerned with the Web’s impact on health and wellbeing, also examines the impact of the Web’s health-related uses on the design, structure, and evolution of the Web itself. Understanding and appreciating the overlapping, yet divergent disciplinary orientation of Health Web […]
Vacancy: Assistant professor (UD) in Web Science (Tenure Track) VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Department of Computer Science Vacancy number: 14393 Closing date: January 5, 2015 In collaboration with the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Department of Computer Sciences of VU University Amsterdam is seeking candidates for an assistant professor in […]
Southampton DTC and SOCIAM teams will be at the event this weekend researching privcy, personal data and demonstrating social media visualisations. Come along and meet the teams
At the end of this year we are saying goodbye to Sir John Taylor who has served on the board of directors for WST since 2009 and who will be stepping down at the end of 2014. He brought a wealth of experience to the Trust and we would like to thank Sir John for […]
Build Peace 2015 – Peace through Technology will take place in Cyprus on April 25-26, 2015. It will discuss the emergence of alternative infrastructures for peace through three key topics: behaviour change, empowerment and impact. (see here for more information). Click here to find out more about the Build Peace Conference event
Prominent technologist and WST board member JP Rangaswami is to leave Salesforce after more than 4 years to become Deutsche Bank’s first ever Chief Data Office (CDO) Click here to read more from CIO.co.uk