Report from Web Science 2013

Abstract

I'll be providing an overview of web science as a discipline using four sample papers from the conference as demonstrations of the type of research being conducted in the field.

• Web Science and the Two (Hundred) Cultures: Gives a nice overview of the topic areas that past Web Science conferences have covered.
• Experiences Surveying the Crowd: Overview of crowdsourcing research. Explores methods, participants, and reliability.
• Market-based SPARQL Brokerage: Exploring monetization of the Web of Data.
• The Performativity of Data: Interesting mix of social theory and semantic web research.

Presentation: Slides are available here.