Traditional fact checking by expert journalists cannot keep up with the enormous volume of information that is now generated online. Computational fact checking may significantly enhance our ability to evaluate the veracity of dubious information. Here we show that the complexities of human fact checking can be approximated quite well by finding the shortest path […]
The Web Science conference papers are available from 2009, 2010 and 2011 via our ePrints server on http://journal.webscience.org/ Later papers are available via your local Library subscriptions. UPDATE 2021 This site is no longer available – please use the Wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20170730095839/http://journal.webscience.org/
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 […]
WSRIa2291 A4 20pp Annual Review The Web Science Trust Annual Review 2011 is the first Review of the Web Science Trust and summarises the activities of the Trust since its inception in December 2009.
Nigel Shadbolt and Kieron O’Hara Oneworld Publications, March 2008. ISBN 978-1-85168-554-7