Date | Time | Room | Content |
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2012-10-16 | 8.15-9.45 | B016 | Introduction, Definition of Web Science PPT PDF |
2012-10-19 | 12.15-13.45 | G210 | History of the Web PPT PDF |
2012-10-23 | 8.30-10.00 | B016 | Patterns in Web History PPT PDF |
2012-10-26 | 12.15-13.45 | G210 | Web Architecture PPT PDF |
2012-10-30 | 10.15-11.45 | E016 | Web Architecture Part 2 PPT PDF |
2012-11-02 | 12.15-13.45 | G210 | Web Architecture Part 3 PPT PDF |
2012-11-06 | 10.15-11.45 | E016 | Structured Data on the Web PPT PDF |
2012-11-09 | 12.15-13.45 | G210 | Applications of Structured Data: Open Government Data PPT PDF |
2012-11-13 | home reading |
All students are expected to read the paper (and be able to answer questions about it):
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2012-11-16 | home reading | continue paper reading | |
2012-11-20 | 10.15-11.45 | E016 | Sick leave |
2012-11-23 | 12.15-13.45 | G210 | Social Web PPT PDF |
2012-11-20 | 10.15-11.45 | E016 | User Modeling PPT PDF |
2012-11-30 | 12.15-13.45 | G210 | User Modeling Part 2 PPT PDF |
2012-12-04 | 10.15-11.45 | E016 | Micro-interactions and macro-observations (Presented by Klaas Dellschaft) PPT PDF |
2012-12-07 | 12.15-13.45 | G210 | - previous slide deck continued - |
2012-12-11 | 10.15-11.45 | E016 | Micro-interactions and macro-observations - Part 2 PPT PDF |
2012-12-14 | 12.15-13.45 | G210 | - previous slide deck continued - |
2012-12-18 | 10.15-11.45 | E016 | Micro-macro-implications PPT PDF |
Winter break from 2012-12-20 to 2013-1-6 | |||
2013-1-8 | 10.15-11.45 | E016 | - previous slide deck continued - |
2013-1-11 | 12.15-13.45 | G210 | Web Observatory PPT PDF |
2013-1-15 | 10.15-11.45 | E016 | Trust PPT PDF |
2013-1-18 | 12.15-13.45 | G210 | Online Advertising PPT PDF |
2013-1-22 | 10.15-11.45 | E016 | Human Computation (Presented by Cristina Sarasua) PPT PDF |
2013-1-25 | 12.15-13.45 | G210 | Collective Intelligence PPT PDF |
2013-1-29 | 10.15-11.45 | E016 | Online Communities Teil-a-PDF Teil-b-PPT Teil-b-PDF |
2013-2-1 | 12.15-15.45 | G210 |
Lecture and Tutorial
The overall module consists of a lecture (2x90 minutes per week) and a corresponding seminar. The seminar provides ample time for discussing specific questions and adding to the topics of the introduction by joint readings and a seminar work. Passing the seminar work is a prerequisite to being admitted to the course exam.
Planned Contents of the Lecture
- History of the Web
- Pre-Web: Memex, Hypertext, Internet, usenet, ftp, gopher
- Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0
- Social and economic growth
- Web Science and Web Science Methodologies
- Descriptive, prescriptive, normative scientific methods:
- What are descriptions and models of the Web?
- What are the prerequisities for specific objectives (e.g. no government by single institution)?
- Quantitative analytical and predictive methods
- Simulation
- Descriptive, prescriptive, normative scientific methods:
- Web Architecture and Major Applications
- http, HTML, Internet, web server, browser, transactions
- User generated content, blogs, wikis, folksonomies, social networks
- Semantic Web summary: XML, RDF, OWL, microformats, microdata
- Web security
- Web Government
- Institutions: W3C, IETF, ICANN; Akash Kapur. Internet Governance - A Primer. Wikibooks.
- Government: Privacy laws, Copyright laws
- Principles and attacks: net neutrality, censorship
- The case of Syrian Internet Army
- Web Content
- Media and standards
- Language and cultural diversity
- Generative models o Rhethoric models in the Web
- Web annotations (Tagging, metadata, Rich Snippets)
- Web and User Behavior/HCI
- Navigation behavior
- Search behavior
- Recommendations
- Web and Social Behavior
- Web reflecting social behavior
- Web affecting social behavior
- Web Structure
- Link Structure, small world
- Social network sites
- Blogosphere
- • Web Analysis
- Web measurements (size, performance,?)
- Crawlers
- Search engines
- Web archiving
- Web Economics
- Advertisement, including cross site advertisements and
- search
- Auctioning in search and online auctions
Literature
Tim-Berners Lee, Wendy Hall, James A. Hendler, Kieron O'Hara, Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel J. Weitzner, A Framework for Web Science, Foundations and Trends in Web Science, ISBN: 1-933019-33-6 144 pp, September 2006 (Open PDF from within university)
Sofia Al Amine, Stephane Bazan, Sabrine Saad, Tesfa Addis, Lorraine Etienne and Christophe Henri Varin: Infowar in Syria: The Web between Liberation and Repression In: Proc. WebSci 2012, Evanston, June 2012, pp. 11-16. See below for Proceedings.
Proc. WebSci 2012, Evanston, June 2012, PDF.
Akash Kapur. Internet Governance - A Primer. Wikibooks.
Michalis Vafopoulos. The Web Economy: Goods, Users, Models, and Policies. Foundations and Trends in Web Science 3(1-2), Now Publishers, 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/1800000015