Web Science Trust

The Web Science Trust (WST) 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]

Web Science Trust
Founded2006 (2006)
TypePrivate company limited by guarantee
Location
Key people
JP Rangaswami, chair of the board
Wendy Hall, managing director
Websitewww.webscience.org

It was first announced at MIT on 2 November 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:

Key personnel

Directors/trustees

Fellows

Patron

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. The first fully virtual Web Science conference was held in July 2020 as a result of travel restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Web Science conferences
Conference Date Place Keynote speakers registrants
Web Science 2020 7th-10 July 2020 Southampton, UK (Virtual conference) Jim Hendler, Gina Neff
Web Science 2019 June 30 - July 03 2019 Boston, USA Fabien Gandon, Sandra González-Bailón
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

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.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Julià Minguillon, Daniel Riera, Kieron O'Hara and Wendy Hall (October 2008). "Web Science (dossier)". UOC Papers (7): 25.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • 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.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • 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.
  3. "ISchools home page".
  4. http://www.websci09.org/


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