WSTNet Lab Directors Meet at WebSci16

May 25, 2016 | ANN, B-IT, Conference, CSAIL, DSI, FOKUS, HDL, L3S, News, NEXT, NI, OII, SONIC, TWC, UC-CS, WEST, WSI, WSTNet Lab

WSTNet Lab Directors Meeting, Hannover, 22 May 2016.

WSTNet Lab Directors Meeting, Hannover, 22 May 2016

WSTNet Lab Directors got together at the start of the Web Science Conference this week in Hannover, Germany. Highlights of the meeting include the election of Steffen Staab as Chair and Pete Burnap as Vice-Chair, planning for this years’ Web Science Summer School at University of Koblenz (30 June to 6 July – ), and firming up of arrangements for World Wide Web Week – a global event celebrating 10 years of Web Science to be held later this year.

Who’s who in the photo (from left to right): Thanassis Tiropanis (WSI), Manfred Hauswirth (FOKUS), Steffan Staab (Institute WeST), Noshir Contractor (SONIC), Sung-Hyon Myaeng (KAIST), Les Carr (WSI), John Erickson (RPI), Susan Davies (WST), Hans Akkermans (VU Amsterdam), Dave De Roure (Oxford e-Research), Anni Rowland-Campbell (Intersticia), Pete Burnap (Cardiff University), and Wolfgang Nejdl, (L3S).

Noshir Contractor on Networking & Team Science

Feb 14, 2015 | SONIC, Video, WST Trustees and Fellows, WSTNet Lab

Plenary talk from the First Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation: “Some Assembly Required: Networking and Team Science for the 21st Century.” Recent technological advances provide comprehensive digital traces of social actions, interactions, and transactions. These data provide an unprecedented exploratorium to model the socio-technical motivations for creating, maintaining, dissolving.