Web Science Trust
| Web Science Trust | |
|---|---|
| Established | 2006 |
| Director | Wendy Hall |
| Location | Southampton, England, United Kingdom |
| Campus | Highfield Campus |
| Website | http://www.webscience.org/ |
The Web Science Trust is UK Charitable Trust which helps to support activities related to the field of Web Science. it was originally started in 2006 as a joint effort between MIT and University of Southampton to bridge and formalize the social and technical aspects of the World Wide Web. The Trust now coordinates a set of international "WSTnet Laboratories" that include many of the top academic research groups in the emerging area of Web science.
It was first announced at MIT on November 2, 2006 as the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), changing its name in 2009 to the Web Science Trust.[1] Tim Berners-Lee originally led this program, now run by a Board of Trustees, which also aims to attract government and private funds, and is involved in creating new undergraduate and graduate curricula. Given the similarities between Web Science and Information Science, Web Science overlaps with the interests of the ISchool movement,[2] particularly in the United States, but focuses more specifically on the Web itself. The annual Web Science conference brings together participants from many fields including those studying both the social and the computational aspects of the World Wide Web.
Some initial areas of interest are:
- Social Networks
- Collaboration
- Understanding online communities
- Analyzing the human interactions inherent in social media
- Web Observatories
- Developing "accountability" and other mechanisms for enhancing privacy and trust on the Web.
Key Personnel
Directors/Trustees
- Wendy Hall
- Nigel Shadbolt
- Daniel Weitzner
- James Hendler
- Noshir Contractor
- JP Rangaswami
- George Metakides
- John Taysom
Other members of the board
- Anni Rowland-Campbell
Fellows
- Tim Berners-Lee (also Founding Director)
- John Taylor
Conferences
The first Web Science conference (WebSci09: Society on Line) was sponsored in part by WSRI and was held in Greece in March 2009. The conference had over 300 registrants from a number of fields including computing, social science, law, economics, philosophy, psychology. The conference has since continued as a yearly event.
| Conference | Date | Place | Keynote speakers | registrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web Science 2014 | 23–25 June |  Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
Wendy Hall, J.P. Rangaswami, Laura DeNardis, Daniel Tunkelang | |
| Web Science 2013 | 2–4 May |  Paris, France |
Vint Cerf, Cory Doctorow | |
| Web Science 2012 | 22–24 June | Evanston, Illinois, USA |
Luis von Ahn, Sinan Aral, danah boyd, Jon Kleinberg, Sonia Livingstone, Siva Vaidyanathan | 200 |
| Web Science 2011 | 14–17 June |  Koblenz, Germany |
Barry Wellman, Jaime Teevan | 190 |
| Web Science 2010 | 26–27 April | Raleigh, North Carolina, USA |
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Jennifer Chayes, Melissa R. Gilbert | |
| Web Science 2009 | 18–20 March |  Athens, Greece |
Noshir Contractor, Nigel Shadbolt, Jacques Bus, Sir Tim Berners-Lee | 300+ |
See also
- Internet Strategy Forum
- List of I-Schools
- World Wide Web
- Webometrics
- Web Engineering
Bibliography
- Lohr, Steve (November 2, 2006). "Group of University Researchers to Make Web Science a Field of Study". The New York Times.
- Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Daniel J. Weitzner (August 2006). "Creating a Science of the Web". Science 313 (11): 769–71. doi:10.1126/science.1126902. PMID 16902115.
- Julià Minguillon, Daniel Riera, Kieron O'Hara and Wendy Hall (October 2008). "Web Science (dossier)". UOC Papers (7): 25.
- James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, Tim Berners-Lee, Daniel J. Weitzner (July 2008). "Web science: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the web". Communications of the ACM 51 (7): 60–69. doi:10.1145/1364782.1364798.
- Web Science: Studying the Internet to Protect Our Future, an article by Tim Berners-Lee.
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