Lead by WST board member Anni Rowland-Campbell the latest WO in a World-Wide Web of Observatories (W3O) went live in Australia thanks to hard work of the joint team from the University of South Australia (UNSA) and WSTnet member the University of Southampton. This is a government-lead observatory project looking at the issue of ageing population […]
India’s first web observatory was launched at the International Institute of Information Technology–Bangalore on Tuesday. The observatory was launched by Prof S Sadagopan and Prof Dame Wendy Hall at a workshop on web science attended by scientists from India and the United Kingdom, jointly organised by IIIT-Bangalore and the British High Commission. Sadagopan stressed the […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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Dear Colleague, I am writing to invite you to our upcoming Web Observatory Workshop (WOW) – a “hands-on” event in LA. These events are held periodically around the world and are intended to bring together practitioners from business, research and government to understand and develop the concepts around the Web Observatory. As you may know, […]
After a series of projects and collaborations with Soton Web Science students and support for a number of UK events around the Web Observatory, SWITCH Concepts have become an official sponsor of the Web Observatory project. Switch works closely with Southampton University’s Web Science Faculty to develop future leaders in technology. We hire and develop […]