Title :
The Web Science Observatory
Author :
Tiropanis, Thanassis ; Hall, Wesley ; Shadbolt, Nigel ; De Roure, D. ; Contractor, Noshir ; Hendler, J.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
To understand and enable the evolution of the Web and to help address grand societal challenges, the Web must be observable at scale across space and time. That requires a globally distributed and collaborative Web Observatory.
Keywords :
Internet; Web science observatory; collaborative Web observatory; distributed Web observatory; Communities; Data visualization; Distributed databases; Electronic mail; Government; Social implications of technology; Web Observatory; Web Science; big data; intelligent systems;
Journal_Title :
Intelligent Systems, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIS.2013.50
