Web science

Структура Веб науки

Цели и задачи Веб науки

Web Science Conference 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina, 26-27 April

Web Science is concerned with the full scope of socio-technical relationships that are implicated in the World Wide Web, and is thus inherently interdisciplinary. It is based on the notion that understanding the Web involves not only an analysis of its architecture and applications, but also insight into the people, organizations, policies, and economics that are affected by and subsumed within it.

This conference embraces physical and social science drawing on computer and engineering sciences, sociology, economics, political science, law, management geography and psychology. Web Science 2010 brings these disciplines together in creative and critical dialogue and crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Invited speakers will be Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft Research, Boston) and Melissa Gilbert (Temple University, Philadelphia) and Sir Tim Berners-Lee (MIT).
Программа конференции

Гордон Браун сообщил об учреждении Британского института веб-исследований

Премьер-Министр Великобритании Гордон Браун официально объявил об учреждении нового национального научно-исследовательского института, который займется разработкой новых концепций, связанных с интернетом.

Возглавит новый НИИ - британец Тим Бернерс Ли, разработавший в начале 1990х годов саму концепцию веба, и один из авторов концепции Веб-науки.

Новый Британский институт веб-исследований должен будет полностью заработать к осени 2010 года. Как следует из заявления Брауна, создание института, а также ранее предпринятые другие шаги правительства направлены на создание новых 250 000 рабочих мест в технологическом секторе страны. "Убежден, что новый институт позволит оставаться Великобритании в авангарде сетевых и высоких технологий", - говорит Браун.

На первом этапе НИИ получит около 30 млн. евро. Ожидается, что НИИ будет разрабатывать общественно-значимые для британского общества ИТ-проекты, разрабатывать мобильные приложения, интерактивные навигационные карты и создавать новые технологии ускоренной обработки больших массивов данных. (подробнее)

News release was issued at 12.30 GMT, Monday 22 March by the UK Department for Business, Industry and Skills

...The web was originally a place where people published documents that users could search and pick up. Web 2.0 has enabled users to contribute and create web content more easily. Web 3.0 will take the web to a whole new level by publishing data in a linkable format so that users and developers can see and exploit the relationships between different sets of information. The development of these technologies will create significant new opportunities for business and the public sector. The impact of these technologies is likely to be as important as the creation of the original web, and could generate large-scale economic benefits for the UK in the global market for web and internet technologies.

The role of the Institute will be to undertake research and development, and act as a bridge between research and business, helping commercialise these new technologies. It will also advise Government on how semantic technologies can be used in the public sector, and how public procurement can be used to speed their adoption.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that 30 million would be set aside to create the Institute for Web Science. It will be headed by Sir Tim Berners Lee, the British inventor of the World Wide Web, and leading Web Science expert Professor Nigel Shadbolt.
News Release (http://webscience.org/article/105).

Конференция

WebSci10. Raleigh, North Carolina, 26 & 27 April 2010

http://www.websci10.org/program.html

Conference Program
Online paper proceedings and online poster proceedings
Lightning talk session (Tue 16:00-17:00): send email to websci10-org@few.vu.nl. State your name and talk title; attach one slide (1 page, PDF format). There is room for 20 lightning talks; distributed on first-come, first-served basis.
Sunday 25 April 16.00
Registration Opens 19.00 Welcome Reception
Monday 26 April Talks in Room 042; poster session in Ballroom C
8.00 Registration
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome address
9:00 - 10:00 (chair: Wendy Hall) Invited talk: Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft Research): Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Networks
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 12:15 (chair: Nigel Shadbolt)
Paper Session 1: Web & Society 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 (chair Guus Schreiber) Lightning talks (max 20 x 3 minutes) Send email to websci10-org@few.vu.nl. State your name and talk title; attach one slide (1 page, PDF format). There is room for 20 lightning talks; distributed on first-come, first-served basis.
  1. Jason Priem: Should we archive tweets?
  2. Hugh Glaser: Linking data at the British Museum
  3. Erik Cambria: Crowd validation of the UK NHS
  4. Christian Meyer: How Web Communities Analyze Human Language: Word Senses in Wiktionary
  5. Stephane Bazan: Doing web science in a context: an example at Saint-Joseph University, Lebanon, in the context of the Arab Near East
  6. Ethan Munson: Transactional and Informational Sitelets
  7. Lora Aroyo: Agora - eventing history
  8. Jim Hendler: Human flesh search: online/offline interaction in China
  9. Sven Rizzotti: UseKit: focus, collaboration, efficiency
  10. Gertjan van Stam: ePiano
  11. Li Ding: Raw government data now!
  12. Harris Wu: From social tagging to social classification
  13. Christopher Thomas: Avoiding linked open disasters
  14. Lora Aroyo: VU Intertain Experimental Research
17:00 - 17:45 (chair: Jim Hendler) Plenary discussion round 17:45 - 18:00 Closing session & award ceremonies

New Global Network of Web Science Laboratories announced at WebSci10

A new international network announced yesterday (Monday 26 April 2010) creates an alliance of world-class research laboratories to support the Web Science research and education programme. The Web Science Trust Network of Laboratories (WSTNet) combines some of the world’s leading academic researchers in Web Science, with new academic programmes that will enhance the already growing influence of Web Science.

WSTNet will be managed by the Web Science Trust, which brings together academics, business leaders, entrepreneurs and policy-makers from around the world with the goal of fostering multidisciplinary research to study the World Wide Web and describe the issues and challenges that will shape its future use and design. Through a number of specific agreements and commitments with the Web Science Trust, the member Labs will provide valuable support for the ongoing development of Web Science. ‘This is yet another important milestone in the progress of Web Science,’ said Sir John Taylor, Chair of the WST Trustee Board. ‘We are linking together a group of highly respected research laboratories which are all already making internationally-leading contributions through their research. We look forward to what we can achieve together in the future, through a series of joint research programmes, events, and collaborations.’ Contributions from the Labs will include the organisation and hosting of summer schools, workshops and meetings, including the WebSci conference series. The WSTNet Labs will also identify opportunities for new events and fundraising, all as part of the ongoing development of Web Science.

The announcement of WSTNet was made at the WebSci10 conference taking place in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, from 26 to 27 April, and co-located with the World Wide Web conference. Representatives of all the Labs are attending the conference along with researchers from the many different disciplines which are involved in Web Science. ‘WSTNet will extend our global research capabilities in Web Science as well as ensuring that the subject is built into university syllabuses,’ said Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Managing Director of WST and one of the founders of the discipline of Web Science. ‘We will continue to extend the network to other research institutes which are already committed to Web Science. ‘We are delighted to welcome on board all the Labs and look forward to further exciting developments in the future.’

The full list of Founding WSTNet Labs is:



Royal Society Discussion Meeting ‘Web Science: A New Frontier’

Monday 27 September 2010 to Tuesday 28 September 2010 Location: The Royal Society, London The World Wide Web has changed almost every aspect of modern life. It touches us all. The Web's billions of pages, links and other resources comprise the largest information fabric in the history of humanity. Yet the Web is rarely approached as an object of scientific study.

What processes have driven the Web's growth, and will they persist? How does large-scale structure emerge from a simple set of protocols? How does the Web work as a socio-technical system? What drives the viral uptake of certain Web phenomena? What might fragment the Web?

Featuring some of the worlds leading researchers on these areas this interdisciplinary meeting will discuss these and other issues as it presents the components of a Science of the Web.

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Web Science Summer Academy - Koblenz 2010

Monday 21 June 2010 to Friday 16 July 2010 Location: University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

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5. Some Existing Web Science Courses

http://webscience.org/wiki/Curriculum

1. Oxford Internet Institute Summer School on Web Science (2008).

http://students.oii.ox.ac.uk/sdp:sdp2008:readings
1. Essential background reading 2. Towards Web Science: the Past, Present and Future of the Web 3. Civic Technologies and the Future of the Internet 4. Information Accountability: Rethinking technical, legal and social privacy protection strategies for the Web 5. Optional Methods Class - Ethnographies of the Internet 6. Dependency Tracking in Everyday Computation (for a more detailed overview see the top paper linked below) 7. Trust in the Internet as an Experience Technology 8. Ontologies and the Semantic Web 9. Engineering privacy-friendly e-government 10. Optional Methods Class - Webometrics: Large-scale analysis and the use of ready made tools for gathering data 11. Companions: persistent agents as internet interfaces 12. Government on the Web 13. Interacting in Virtual Environments 14. Distributed Problem-Solving Networks 15. Open Access: the Discipline of Public Knowledge 16. The Historical Origins of ‘Open Science’ and Why it Matters Today 17. Trust on the Web 18. The Future of Semantics on the Web 19. Digital Inclusion and Public Policy 20. Optional Methods Class - Experimental Methods for Studying Online Behaviour 21. The Development of Web Science in China 22. Value creation mechanisms in Web environments

2. Universiy of Cincinnati. Internet Studies and Web Algorithms (20-CS-728, Spring 2008). Dr. Fred Annexstein.

http://www.cs.uc.edu/~annexste/Courses/cs728-2008/syl.htm
1. Network models, social networks, small-world and random models 2. P2P, overlay networks and distributed file sharing 3. Load balancing and scheduling 4. Web caching and content delivery, DHTs 5. Multicasting in IP and overlay networks 6. Network routing and reliability 7. Network monitoring, visualization, characterization, and analysis 8. Search engines, web-crawling, web-indexing, semantic web 9. Web streaming, facility location 10. Clustering and compression algorithms

3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier Hal Abelson & Daniel Weitzner

http://web.mit.edu/~6.805

4. Old Dominion University. Technologies of Google Seminar (CS791/891) Michael Nelson.

http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/teaching/cs791-s07

5. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Deborah McGuinness and Peter Fox. Semantic eScience. Using semantic technologies and web science infrastructure to do next generation potentially multi-disciplinary distributed science. Last taught Fall 2008.

http://tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Semantic_e-Science

6. RWTH Aachen University. Ralf Klamma, Matthias Jarke.

http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/lehrstuhl/lehre/WebSc08/
1. Social Network Analysis 2. Web mining 3. Web archiving 4. Web 2.0 and Social Software 5. Web communities and mediabases 6. Computing paradigms and World Wide Web 7. Service science and Web application development 8. Trends and future evolution

7. University of Bristol. Kirsten Cater and Dave Cliff. Algorithmic and Economic Aspects of the Internet.

http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Teaching/Resources/COMSM2006/
1. The Big Picture: Carr's Big Switch, Perez's Technology Surges. 2. Who wants to be a billionaire? Success stories from web businesses. 3. Market-based systems. 4. Networks & Graph Theory 5. Social Networks 6. Cloud Computing 7. Visualization and Statistical Analysis 8. Peer to Peer Networks 9. Virtual Economies and Online Games 10. Attack and Defense on Technology Networks 11. Tales from the City: web science in the global financial markets 12. Complexity in Organisations: Growth, Scale, Failure, & Resilience 13. Current Research Frontiers

8. University of Edinburgh, Institute for Science, Technology and Innovation,

James Stewart - Internet and Society Primary social science UG and PG (https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/IandS/Internet+and+Society+Home)
1. Technology and Society 2. Information Society 3. Social Network Systems 4. The_Internet 5. Digital_Divide? 6. Community and Identity 7. Mobile Life 8. Politics and Democracy 9. Privacy and Surveillance 10. Research_Methods - group project 11. Governing the Net

9. University of Koblenz, Sergej Sizov at ISWeb - Information Systems & Semantic Web : Special Course on Web Science (Master/Diploma level) :

http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/Teaching/ws0910/special-course-on-web-science?set_language=en
1. Modeling and analysis of user behaviour and access patterns in Social Web 2. Collaborative information management 3. Analysis of social networks and folksonomy mining; dynamics and evolution patterns of online communities 4. thematically focused search, trend analysis, information integration for Linked Open Data 5. Scalable stream-oriented data analysis in the Social Web