A framework for web science

@article{citeulike:2020805, abstract = {This text sets out a series of approaches to the analysis and synthesis of the World Wide Web, and other web-like information structures. A comprehensive set of research questions is outlined, together with a sub-disciplinary breakdown, emphasising the multi-faceted nature of the Web, and the multi-disciplinary nature of its study and develop- ment. These questions and approaches together set out an agenda for Web Science, the science of decentralised information systems. Web Science is required both as a way to understand the Web, and as a way to focus its development on key communicational and representational requirements. The text surveys central engineering issues, such as the development of the Semantic Web, Web services and P2P. Analytic approaches to discover the Web’s topology, or its graph-like structures, are examined. Finally, the Web as a technology is essentially socially embedded; therefore various issues and requirements for Web use and governance are also reviewed.}, address = {Hanover, MA, USA}, author = {Berners-Lee, Tim and Hall, Wendy and Hendler, James A. and O'Hara, Kieron and Shadbolt, Nigel and Weitzner, Daniel J. }, citeulike-article-id = {2020805}, doi = {10.1561/1800000001}, journal = {Found. Trends Web Sci.}, keywords = {information-retrieval, position-paper, review, semantic-web}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {1--130}, posted-at = {2008-07-26 19:09:19}, priority = {3}, publisher = {Now Publishers Inc.}, title = {A framework for web science}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1295278}, volume = {1}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2020805 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2020805 TI - A framework for web science JF - Found. Trends Web Sci. VL - 1 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 130 AD - Hanover, MA, USA PB - Now Publishers Inc. N2 - This text sets out a series of approaches to the analysis and synthesis of the World Wide Web, and other web-like information structures. A comprehensive set of research questions is outlined, together with a sub-disciplinary breakdown, emphasising the multi-faceted nature of the Web, and the multi-disciplinary nature of its study and develop- ment. These questions and approaches together set out an agenda for Web Science, the science of decentralised information systems. Web Science is required both as a way to understand the Web, and as a way to focus its development on key communicational and representational requirements. The text surveys central engineering issues, such as the development of the Semantic Web, Web services and P2P. Analytic approaches to discover the Web’s topology, or its graph-like structures, are examined. Finally, the Web as a technology is essentially socially embedded; therefore various issues and requirements for Web use and governance are also reviewed. KW - information-retrieval KW - position-paper KW - review KW - semantic-web AU - Berners-Lee, Tim AU - Hall, Wendy AU - Hendler, James AU - O'Hara, Kieron AU - Shadbolt, Nigel AU - Weitzner, Daniel PY - 2006/01// UR - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1295278 ER -