- Web science
Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) is a joint effort of
MIT andUniversity 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 onNovember 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
*CollaborationSee also
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World Wide Web
*Webology
*Webometrics
*Web Engineering Bibliography
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title = Group of University Researchers to Make Web Science a Field of Study
work = The New York Times | pages = | language = | publisher =
date = November 2, 2006
url = http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/technology/02compute.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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*cite journal
author = Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Daniel J. Weitzner
year = 2006
month = August
title = Creating a Science of the Web
journal = Science
volume = 313
issue = 11
url = http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/313/5788/769?ijkey=o66bodkFqpcCs&keytype=ref&siteid=sci
doi = 10.1126/science.1126902
pages = 769External links
* [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/wsri.html Press release]
* [http://www.webscience.org Official site]
* [http://www.nesta.org.uk/innovation-edge-web-science/?playaudio=1 Audio: Web Science: A Conversation with the Inventor of the Web]
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