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9 May 2007
Web Science Research Panel Discussion, WWW2007
Posted by Paul Miller at May 9, 2007 06:52 PM
“The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) announced in November 2006 is a joint effort of MITand University of Southampton to bridge and formalize the social and technical aspects of collaborative applications running on large-scale networks like the web.
The announcement of the WSRI raises the question 'what is Web Science'? Is it a new discipline or a new name for an old discipline? Is it a genuine academic disicpline at all? What is a Web Science methodology? What is the core knowledge set that Web Science practitioners share? What does a Web Science paper look like?
The distinguished panel which includes two of the directors of the WSRI will be answering these questions and more.”
Nigel Shadbolt, Southampton
The web has been transformational (it's the largest human information construct).
The challenge is understanding it, developing it, ensuring social benefit, and developing the Web's capacity to move forward.
This requires a new interdisciplinary field; web science.
Daniel Weitzner, MIT
Using some of the imagery from Tim's keynote to demonstrate ways in which Web Science might be applied to notions of privacy.
Phillip Hallam-Baker, Verisign
Isn't 'Web Science' “just the education you expect of a cultured person in the 21st century”
Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs
“New scientific discipline, or crass way of getting more money out of funders?”
What makes something Web Science? And how does it relate to computer science, informatics, etc...?
What's the problem with 'allowing' Web Science to exist as a separate discipline? “Walling the web off from other parts of Informatics is a bad idea”.
Discussion
“You miss what's interesting about the web if you only think of it as a [software] application in some other [computer] system.”
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