The evolution of the Web and implications for eResearch
The evolution of the Web and implications for eResearch
The hypertext visionaries foresaw the potential of richly interlinked global information systems for advancing human knowledge. The Web provided the infrastructure to enable those ideas to become a reality, and it quickly became a platform for collaborative research and data sharing. As the Web has evolved, new ways of using it for eResearch have emerged, such as the social networking facilities enabled by Web 2.0 technologies. The next generation of the Web-the so-called Semantic Web-is now on the horizon, which will again enable new types of collaborative research to emerge. If we are to understand and anticipate these new modes of collaboration, we need a discipline that studies the Web as a whole. Web science is this discipline.
hypertext, web 2.0, semantic web, eresearch, web science
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Hall, Wendy
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De Roure, David
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Shadbolt, Nigel
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13 March 2009
Hall, Wendy
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De Roure, David
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Shadbolt, Nigel
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Hall, Wendy, De Roure, David and Shadbolt, Nigel
(2009)
The evolution of the Web and implications for eResearch.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 367 (1890), .
(doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0252).
Abstract
The hypertext visionaries foresaw the potential of richly interlinked global information systems for advancing human knowledge. The Web provided the infrastructure to enable those ideas to become a reality, and it quickly became a platform for collaborative research and data sharing. As the Web has evolved, new ways of using it for eResearch have emerged, such as the social networking facilities enabled by Web 2.0 technologies. The next generation of the Web-the so-called Semantic Web-is now on the horizon, which will again enable new types of collaborative research to emerge. If we are to understand and anticipate these new modes of collaboration, we need a discipline that studies the Web as a whole. Web science is this discipline.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 16 December 2008
Published date: 13 March 2009
Keywords:
hypertext, web 2.0, semantic web, eresearch, web science
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Web & Internet Science
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/267132
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