Feb 8, 2014 | Conference, WSTNet Lab
The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2014) which will be held from April 7 to 11, 2014 in Seoul, Korea.
The World Wide Web Conference is an annual international conference on the topics of the future direction of the World Wide Web.
The Conference is an outstanding international forum to present and discuss progress in research, development, standards, and applications of the topics related to the Web. WWW 2014 will offer high quality technical activities including research sessions, poster sessions, workshops, and tutorials. Tracks and special programs will include the research track, posters track, demonstration track, developers track, industry track, panels, Ph.D. symposium track, tutorials, web science track, workshops, and W3C track.
We believe you will experience a taste of the Korean culture in Seoul which has been the capital of Korea for over 600 years. It is the heart of the Korean culture and education as well as politics and economics. Seoul is home of many historic sites including Gyeongbokgung (Northern Royal Palace) and Changdeokgung (Prospering Virtue Palace), and places of traditional culture such as Bukchon Hanok Village (traditional Korean village), Insa-dong (traditional market place), and Namdaemun Market.
WWW 2014 will be a great conference for sharing the latest academic insights as well as experiencing the unique culture of Seoul, a city that brings the old traditions of Korea and the new vibrance of information technology.
Oct 2, 2013 | Events, News, WebSci Conferences
ACM WebSci14 (http://www.websci14.org/) will be hosted by Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
The ACM Web Science 2014 Conference will be hosted on the beautiful campus of Indiana University, Bloomington from June 23 to June 26, 2014.
Web Science studies the vast information network of people, communities, organizations, applications, and policies that shape and are shaped by the Web, the largest artifact constructed by humans in history. Computing, physical, and social sciences come together, complementing each other in understanding how the Web affects our interactions and behaviors.
Oct 2, 2013 | Events, Web Observatory
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 at the World Wide Web Conference in Rio, Brazil, and the recent technical Web Observatory Workshop held at Stanford University in August 2013. The Boston WOW aims to draw together researchers and students from across the academic fields and WSTNet labs in order to discuss the current progress of the worldwide efforts in building and supporting the Web Observatory vision. Held at the MIT, this promises to be a great setting to drive forward the Web Observatory project and help foster a collaborative working environment for attendees.
The workshop is inviting participants to share and present their current research that relates to Web Observatory topics such as infrastructure and technical design, data aggregation, dataset harmonisation, data analytics, visualisations and representation, and also legality and policy decisions. The workshop will provide an environment for those that wish to engage and have a hands-on session with data and tools, and invites participants to bring along datasets and analytical tools to share and discuss with other participants. The workshop will be suitable for both those interested in operations and technologies, and sessions will be supported by researchers and industry partners already involved in the Web Observatory.
The Boston WOW will be a full-day event and aims to cater for a wide variety of interests, from hands-on sessions to small focus groups. The informal unconference approach encourages participants to freely participate in sessions of interest to them, with an aim of establishing and agreeing on a number of collaborative projects within and between WSTNet labs and other participants.
Goals
In short, the goals of the workshop are:
- To identify the current cutting edge research related to the Web Observatory project from WSTNet labs and other participants
- To discuss the opportunities and challenges of the Web Observatory for society and government (including crisis-management, health, education)
- To identify the research challenges of secure, distributed, interoperable, and efficient infrastructures for Web Observatories
- To establish short-term and long-term collaborative projects between participants (not necessarily technical)
- To identify and share the latest technologies, tools and techniques available for harvesting, storing and analysing datasets
- To facilitate a hands-on session for participants interested in working with available Web Observatory data. The workshop encourages participants to bring along and share their datasets (closed and open) and tools for Web Observatory purposes
- To set deliverables and actions for the next Web Observatory technical meeting
Call for Presentations, Talks, Datasets, and Tools
Participants are invited to provide the following:
- Short 10-20 minute presentations or tutorials regarding their current work related to Web Observatories infrastructure, technologies, analytics, visualisations, policy design, governance models, legal issues
- Datasets for the hands-on sessions Open or closed datasets of a variety of topics and formats – the more the better
- Tools, analytical techniques, and visualisation approaches
- Prototype systems, visualisation frameworks and current Big Data approaches for Web scale analytics
Participants that wish to take part in Boston WOW should email their interests to the contact email address below, indicating whether they are able to present and/or provide resources (data, tools, tutorials).
Key Dates, Registration and Important Information
Participants wishing to present, submit data, or run a small discussion group (either technical or non-technical) are required to submit a short abstract (100-200 words) by 27th September 2013.
For those wishing to attend the workshop, please RSVP by the 27th September to the contacts given below. Places are limited and are offered on a first come, first served basis.
Please also note, the workshop is free to attend, but travel costs cannot be covered.
Contact Details
For more information, questions or comments, please contact:
Dani O’shea (event coordinator) – dpos2v12@soton.ac.uk
Ramine Tinati (workshop organiser) – rt506@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Aug 12, 2013 | Events, News, Web Observatory
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 observatories are different
the session progressed into a data hack together kicked off by Vinay Goel from our partners at the Internet Archive to look at ways in which complex data sets can be wrangled, analysed and shared.
May 16, 2013 | Events, Web Observatory
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, methods, results and experience in the development and deployment of Web Observatories – and to set the agenda for future work in the field.
More information and papers from this workshop are available at
