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Title: A Framework for Web Science
Author: Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, James A. Hendler, Kieron O'Hara, Nigel Shadbolt, and Daniel J. Weitzner
Journal: Foundations and Trends in Web Science
Volume: 1
Number: 1
Pages: 1--130
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1561/18000000018
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 development. 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.



@Article{berners-lee06a,
  author =	 {Tim Berners-Lee and Wendy Hall and James A. Hendler
                  and Kieron O'Hara and Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel
                  J. Weitzner},
  title =	 {A Framework for Web Science},
  journal =	 {Foundations and Trends in Web Science},
  year =	 2006,
  volume =	 1,
  number =	 1,
  pages =	 {1--130},
  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
                  development. 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.},
  doi = 	 {10.1561/18000000018},
  url = 	 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/berners-lee06a.pdf}
}
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