In June, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics held an event celebrating 10 years of Web Science. This event was organised by Susan Halford from the University of Southampton, James A. Hendler from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Eirini Ntoutsi the Leibniz University Hannover and Steffen Staab from the University of Koblenz-Landau. …
Written by Robert Thorburn Packed to the brim with more academic discourse, networking and interesting research than one can shake a stick at, the 2018 Web Science conference also delivered more than its fair share of special moments. Run over four days starting on Sunday the 27th of May, the …
Last night was the WebSci 18 conference dinner, where we went on a boat trip through the canals of Amsterdam. There was a huge rainstorm, with thunder and lightning which relieved the tension in the air and allowed us all to arrive fresh to the conference this morning, for the …
This morning I entered the VU Amsterdam building to find a huge crowd of people waiting to see Tim Berners-Lee deliver his Turing Award Lecture as part of the Web Science conference. The crowd surged forward into the stunning Aula room and settled down to wait for Tim’s arrival. Hans …
Today was the official opening of the Web Sci conference. The day started with a keynote session titled ‘Best of Web Science 2018’. The papers in this session were all nominated for the best paper award. All of the papers were good and presented some excellent work. Reuben Binns from …
