Web Science Trust

Founded| 2006 (2006)
Type| Private company limited by guarantee
Location|

* University of Southampton, U.K. / London, U.K. (registered office)

Key people

| James Hendler, chair of the board
Wendy Hall, managing director
Website| http://www.webscience.org/

The Web Science Trust is a UK Charitable Trust with the aim of supporting the global development of Web science. It was originally started in 2006 as a joint effort between MIT and University of Southampton to formalise the social and technical aspects of the World Wide Web. The Trust coordinates a set of international "WSTNet Laboratories" that include academic research groups in the emerging area of Web science.[1]

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.[2] Tim Berners-Lee originally led this program, now run by a Board of Trustees, which aims to attract government and private funds to support their many activities. The Web Science Trust supports curriculum development in universities and research institutions to train future generations of Web Scientists. Given the similarities between Web Science and Information Science, Web Science overlaps with the interests of the ISchool movement,[3] 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.

Areas of interest include:

* Social networks
* Social machine
* Collaboration
* Understanding online community
* Analyzing the human interactions inherent in social media
* Web observatories
* Developing "accountability" and other mechanisms for enhancing privacy and trust on the Web.

## Contents

* 1 Key personnel
* 2 Conferences
* 3 See also
* 4 Bibliography
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Key personnel

Directors/trustees

* Wendy Hall
* Nigel Shadbolt
* Daniel Weitzner
* James Hendler
* Noshir Contractor
* JP Rangaswami
* George Metakides
* John Taysom
* Anni Rowland-Campbell
* Joanna Lewis

Fellows

* Tim Berners-Lee (also Founding Director)
* Sir John Taylor

Patron

* Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie

## Conferences

The first Web Science conference (WebSci09: Society on Line) was sponsored in part by WSRI and was held in Greece in March 2009.[4] 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.

Web Science conferences  Conference  | Date  | Place  | Keynote speakers  | registrants

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Web Science 2018 | 27-30 May 2018  |  Netherlands, Amsterdam  | Tim Berners-Lee, John Domingue  |
Web Science 2017 | 26–28 June 2017  |  Troy, NY, USA  | Steffen Staab, Jen Golbeck  |
Web Science 2016 | 22–25 May 2016  |  Hannover, Germany  | Daniel Miller, Andrew Tomkins, Daniel Olmedilla, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Jure Leskovec, Helen Margetts  |
Web Science 2015 | 28 June–1 July 2015  |  Oxford, UK  | Markus Strohmaier, Mia Consalvo, Rachel Gibson  |
Web Science 2014 | 23–25 June 2014  |  Bloomington, Indiana, USA  | Wendy Hall, J.P. Rangaswami, Laura DeNardis, Daniel Tunkelang  |
Web Science 2013 | 2–4 May 2013  |  Paris, France  | Vint Cerf, Cory Doctorow  |
Web Science 2012 | 22–24 June 2012  |  Evanston, Illinois, USA  | Luis von Ahn, Sinan Aral, danah boyd, Jon Kleinberg, Sonia Livingstone, Siva Vaidyanathan  | 200
Web Science 2011 | 14–17 June 2011  |  Koblenz, Germany  | Barry Wellman, Jaime Teevan | 190
Web Science 2010 | 26–27 April 2010  |  Raleigh, North Carolina, USA  | Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Jennifer Chayes, Melissa R. Gilbert  |
Web Science 2009 | 18–20 March 2009  |  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. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/technology/02compute.html?_r=1&oref=slogin.
* 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. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/313/5788/769?ijkey=o66bodkFqpcCs&keytype=ref&siteid=sci.
* Julià Minguillon, Daniel Riera, Kieron O'Hara and Wendy Hall (October 2008). "Web Science (dossier)". UOC Papers (7): 25. http://www.uoc.edu/uocpapers/7/dt/eng/webscience.html.
* 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. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2008/7/5366-web-science/fulltext.
* Web Science: Studying the Internet to Protect Our Future, an article by Tim Berners-Lee.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.webscience.org/wstnet-laboratories-2/
2. ↑ "About The Web Science Trust". The Web Science Trust. http://webscience.org/web-science-trust/about-us/.
3. ↑ "ISchools home page". http://www.ischools.org/.
4. ↑ http://www.websci09.org/

## External links

* Press release
* Audio: Web Science: A Conversation with the Inventor of the Web

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Semantic Web

Background|

* Databases
* Hypertext
* Internet
* Ontologies
* Semantics
* Semantic networks
* World Wide Web

Sub-topics|

* Dataspaces
* Hyperdata
* Linked data
* Rule-based systems

Applications|

* Semantic analytics
* Semantic broker
* Semantic computing
* Semantic mapper
* Semantic matching
* Semantic publishing
* Semantic reasoner
* Semantic search
* Semantic service-oriented architecture
* Semantic wiki

Related topics|

* Collective intelligence
* Description logic
* Folksonomy
* Geotagging
* Information architecture
* Knowledge extraction
* Knowledge management
* Knowledge representation and reasoning
* Library 2.0
* Digital library
* Digital humanities
* Metadata
* References
* Topic map
* Web 2.0
* Web engineering
* Web Science Trust

Standards|

| Syntax and supporting technologies|

* HTTP
* IRI
* URI
* RDF
* triples
* RDF/XML
* JSON-LD
* Turtle
* TriG
* Notation3
* N-Triples
* TriX (no W3C standard)
* RRID
* SPARQL
* XML
* Semantic HTML

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Schemas, ontologies and rules|

* Common Logic
* OWL
* RDFS
* Rule Interchange Format
* Semantic Web Rule Language
* ALPS
* SHACL

Semantic annotation|

* eRDF
* GRDDL
* Microdata
* Microformats
* RDFa
* SAWSDL
* Facebook Platform

Common vocabularies|

* DOAP
* Dublin Core
* FOAF
* Schema.org
* SIOC
* SKOS

Microformat vocabularies|

* hAtom
* hCalendar
* hCard
* hProduct
* hRecipe
* hResume
* hReview

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