Web Science Overview
http://www.w3.org/2008/Talks/0708-ws-30min-tbl/
Tim Berners-Lee
MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Southampton University School of Electroncis and Computer Science
Web Science Research Initiative
This talk
- Remember back before the Web?
- Net, Web, Graph
- Web Science
CERN: The European Particle Physics Laboratory
CERN: Atlas Detector
1980: Enquire
> ENQUIRE
Enquire V 1.1
Hello!
Opening file (PSK-PCP)VAC-V1:ENQR...
PSB Vacuum Control System (concept) < O>
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[ 1] described-by: Enquiry System
An experimental system for which this is a test.
[ 2] includes: Vacuum History System
Records and displays slow changes in pressure.
[ 3] includes: Vacuum equipment modules
Perform all the hardware interface
[ 4] includes: Control and status applications programs
Provide operator interaction from the consoles.
[ 5] described-by: Controle du System a Vide du Booster 11-2-80
Operational specification of the software
[ 6] includes: PSB Pump Surveillance System PCP 228
Allows rapid monitoring of pressure changes
[number ]
1989: Web memo
Circles and arrows again...
1990: WWW design
- URI is global identifier, having one is good
- URI schemes have different properties
- HTTP scheme allows publish and lookup
- HTTP allows many data formats
- HTML is a language for hypertext
- .. but links not typed.
1990: Original WWW architecture
Web must be universal
Must worik with any...
- ... hardware.
- ... browser, operating system
- ... network
- ... language, culture
- ... disability
- ... type of infromation
1991-4: First WWW server hits
1994: World Wide Web Consortium
Standards: good + fair + fast
Leading the web to its full potential
2006: Web Science Research Initiuative
- Analysis and Synthesis
- Promote Research
- New curriculum
(Historical Roadmap,
Web Science
http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/0920-webhistory-tbl/
Layers: Link
Layers: Net hides links
Layers: Web hides computers
Layers: Web hides computers
Layers: Semantic Web
Layers: Semantic Web
Layers: Semantic Web
Layers: Semantic Web
Linked Open Data
Web Science
The process of designing things in a very large space
Designing a system...
involves social conventions too.
Microscopic system
Macroscopic effect
Analyse the result
Is this what we want?
The process of web science
Science and engineering
Magic
magic = stuff you don't understand
More magic
magic = stuff you don't understand yet
Second guessing
Conclusion
- The WWW is big, complex and important
- We should study it
- We should engineer it
- We should prepare for a future we can't imagine
- ... yet
http://www.w3.org/2008/Talks/0708-ws-30min-tbl/
