Following a series of collaborations with the Southampton Doctoral Training Centre Edelman – the well-known PR experts have become one of the very first Web Observatory project sponsors About Edelman Edelman is the world’s largest public relations firm, with 67 offices and more than 4,800 employees worldwide, as well as affiliates in more than 30 […]
Boston Web Observatory Workshop (WOW) – 2013 Location: MIT, Cambridge, MA (room tbc) Date: 9th October 2013 Time: 09:30 – 17:30 Overview The Boston Web Observatory Workshop (WOW) builds upon the success of the 1st international workshop on ‘Building Web Observatories’ held at Web Science 2013 in Paris, France, the 1st International Web Observatory Workshop […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Wendy Hall was interviewed about the web observatory in the Indian newspaper , The Hindu; Web observatory for cybergazing 7th Feb 2013
Title: Web Observatory Community Group face-to-face Location: Boston Description: We’re planning a Web Observatory Community Group face-to-face meetup on Friday November 16th, immediately after the ISWC conference http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/ Date: 2012-11-16
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 […]
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 […]