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Web science

Web science. university of the Aegean, department of Cultural technology. PCI 2008, Samos. Michalis Vafopoulos , 2008. contents. Web timeline & characteristics Web science timeline Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) What is Web Science? Research issues Research example: privacy

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Web science

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  1. Web science university of the Aegean, department of Cultural technology PCI 2008, Samos Michalis Vafopoulos, 2008

  2. contents • Web timeline & characteristics • Web science timeline • Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) • What is Web Science? • Research issues • Research example: privacy • Web Science: why this matters 1/18

  3. Web timeline & characteristics 2/18

  4. Web science timeline 1991: Tim Berners-Lee presents Web in Geneva (CERN) 1993: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is established :: 2003 : FHW - TBL presents his ideas on Semantic web 2005: The Web ScienceWorkshop, London • Chairs: Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall • OrganizingCommittee: J.Hendler, N. Shadbolt, D.Weitzner 11/2006: Web Science Research Initiative is established 2007: “A Frameworkfor Web Science” is published 2007: the book is translated to Greek/introduced in Univ. 4/2008: EU FET workshop in Web science 4/2008: 2ndWeb ScienceWorkshop, China 7/2008: Summer Doctoral Program, Oxford 9/2008: Web science curriculum workshop, UK 2009: 1st World Conference in Web science 18-20 March 2009, call to be announced Foundation of the Hellenic World Keynote speaker: Tim Berners-Lee 3/18

  5. Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) A joint venture: • MIT’s CSAIL • Southampton’s ECS 4/18

  6. WSRI aims • promote and encourage transdisciplinary collaborative research to study the development of the Web • provide a global forum to enable academia, government and industry to understand the scientific, technical and social factors that drive the growth of the Web and enable innovation • devise curricula for the new discipline of Web Science so as to train future generations of Web Scientists 5/18

  7. directors the reputations, experience and skills of WSRI Directors enables it to work closely alongside academia, government, industry and donors to realize it’s aims Nigel Shadbolt Wendy Hall Tim Berners-Lee Daniel Weitzner 6/18

  8. launch 11/2006 “Web Science represents a pretty big next step in the evolution of information. This kind of research is likely to have a lot of influence on the next generation of researchers, scientists and, most importantly, the next generation of entrepreneurs who will build new companies from this.” Dr Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google Inc. “Web Science research is a prerequisite to designing and building the kinds of complex, human-oriented systems that we are after in services science.” Irving Wladawsky-Berger, VP, Technical Strategy and Innovation, IBM Corporation. 7/18

  9. WSRI Operational Phases Phase 1: Nov 06 to Nov 07 Launched the concept and targeted activities Phase 2: Dec 07 to Nov 08 Establish a lean organization in America and Europe Phase 3: Dec 08 onwards Build a global organization and expand activity base 8/18

  10. Web Science Research: Some of the issues • the structure of the Web • effective protocols for the Web • social effects on the Web • meaning in the Web • fragmentation of the Web • rates of change on the Web… 9/18

  11. What WSRI do: thought leadership • a global forum of experts to raise awareness, lead thinking and disseminate information • provide corporations, governments and regulators with the capability to anticipate future developments 10/18

  12. What WSRI do: education • collaborate to develop degree courses and curriculum • modify and extend, evolve current courses • build capacity for this new field • motivated students tackling a real and important set of challenges 11/18

  13. What is Web Science? • The transdisciplinary field of Web science is taking the Web as its primary object of study. • One of the envelope questions of Web Science could be what technological and other changes need to be made in order for the Web to work better? • A lot of work already has been done in various disciplinary frameworks (e.g. computer science, social and political sciences etc.) about the Web, but needs to be organized and initiate new work in a broader context in order to answer the above kind of questions. 12/18

  14. Web Science is transdisciplinary Physics Statistical Mechanics Phase Transitions… Political Science Governance Democratic Mechanisms… 13/18

  15. research issues • simple principles and protocols (e.g. links) create complex structures - the Web • simple behaviors (e.g. Blogging) create complex phenomena - the Blogosphere • anticipating new principles and behaviors • Scale-free & fractal nature of the Web • why over the Web the numbers of links into and links out of any Web page obey a Power Law • … 14/18

  16. research example: privacy 15/18

  17. Web Science: why this matters • can you imagine life without the Web? • the Web matters • an essential part of humanity • understanding the Web is a major challenge as big as any other global cause 17/18

  18. Thanks for your attention. Michalis Vafopoulos 18/18

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