Prof Dame Wendy Hall on a panel discussing Web Science for the BBC Click podcast. Click here to open a new window to listen Recorded Nov 2014
Five years ago the Web Science Trust (WST) was established as a British charitable trust, and during the time since we have launched the WSTnet laboratories network – a prestigious academic group comprising the leading Web Science groups globally. We have coordinated several major events, promoted Web Science developments including the Web Science conference, the […]
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The 3rd running of the Web Science MOOC is now open for registration to start on the 6th October: Web Science free MOOC – how the Web is changing the world. In the Web Science MOOC we examine the origins and evolution of the Web, and considered key questions of Security, Democracy, Networks and Economy from both […]
Location: National University of Singapore Dates: 8 – 15 December 2014 UPDATE – Registration and Summer school website are now live Click here for the Summer School website Click here for the Registration Site The deadline for Registration is 22nd November (Student) and 30th November (General Participants/Non-Student). Abstract: The Web increasingly provides a vehicle for diverse elements […]
It’s been announced that Prof. Sir Nigel Shadbolt, a WST Board Member, is to be the next Principal of Jesus College Oxford. At Southampton, Nigel is Professor of Artificial Intelligence. Since 2009, he has also been an advisor to the UK Government across a range of data related topics. In 2012, he co-founded the Open Data Institute with […]
The University of Southampton is hosting the W3S Web Science summer school from the 20th to the 26th of July. The course is aimed at Masters and PhD students studying Web Science or a related discipline who wish to learn more about the tools and methods required to manage and process the increasingly large and […]
One of the key objectives of the Web Observatory will be to enable the discovery and sharing of data sets and tools with other Observatories and we are indebted to Prof Jim Hendler’s group at RPI for their work in developing a schema.org extension designed to enable this important feature. The main wiki entry for […]