Web science

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Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) is a joint effort of MIT and University of Southampton to bridge and formalize the social and technical aspects of collaborative applications running on large-scale networks like the web. It was announced on November 2, 2006 in MIT. Tim Berners-Lee is leading the program that also aims to attract government and private funds, and eventually produce undergraduate and graduate programs. This is very similar to the ISchool movement.

Some initial areas of interest are:

• Trust and privacy
• Social Networks
• Collaboration

[edit] See also

• World Wide Web
• Webology
• Webometrics
• Web Engineering

[edit] Bibliography

• Lohr, Steve. "Group of University Researchers to Make Web Science a Field of Study", The New York Times, November 2, 2006. 
• Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Daniel J. Weitzner (August 2006). "Creating a Science of the Web". Science 313 (11): 769. doi:10.1126/science.1126902. 

[edit] External links

• Press release
• Official site