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Science, the Web and Web Science

Daniel Riera (drierat@uoc.edu)

Doctor in Computer Engineering, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)

UOC Software Engineering Research Group (GRES-UOC)



abstract

The evolution of the World Wide Web (or simply the web) since its birth in the 1980s has been staggering. The incorporation of new users, which has been exponential over time, and the constant contributions of new ways of organising data, communicating, sharing information, etc., have led to its gaining a practically unstoppable inertia in just two decades.


The Web Science Research Institute, WSRI, was created in November of 2006 with the main aim of proposing a new discipline, Web Science, to observe the web and all that that surrounds it. It defends the need to analyse what is going on inside and outside the web and, thus, be able to propose improvements and corrections. This idea requires combining disciplines that have, to date, been very disperse, such as IT, psychology, law or economics. This has led to a new professional profile, the Web Scientist, and, likewise, new academic needs.


This article details the work carried out by the WSRI in its first two years of existence, with regard to the new knowledge area of Web Science.

keywords

WSRI, education, historical review, web science



Submission date:  September 2008
Accepted in:  September 2008
Published in:  October 2008






 
Open summary, issue 7 (2008)

Open summary (iss. 7, 2008)

editorial

Urbanism and Web Science

in-depth

Inaugural lecture of the UOC's 2008-2009
academic year

Planning and Beyond in the Globalising World,by Alfonso Vegara
From the UOC on the Internet to the Network-UOC, foreword by the president Imma Tubella
Against Urbanalisation. Urban policies in
the globalisation of cities,
counterpoint by Francesc Muñoz

dossier

Web Science,
coordinated by Julià Minguillón

Science, the Web and Web Science,
by Daniel Riera

Trust on the Web: Some Web Science Research Challenges,
by Kieron O'Hara and Wendy Hall

E-learning from the Perspective of Web Science: Looking to the Future,
by Julià Minguillón

miscellany

Collaborative Audiovisual Creation and Production. Social and Cultural Implications
of the Use of Open Source Audiovisual
Resources and Free Software
,

by Jordi Alberich and Antoni Roig

XXI An Odyssey in Cyberspace: A Preliminary Look at Cyber-Feminism, by Eva Salas

Social Capital as the Source of Competitive Intelligence in Universities, by Eva Ortoll-Espinet, Alexandre López-Borrull, Josep Cobarsí-Morales, Montserrat Garcia-Alsina and Agustí Canals-Parera

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