Social Networks and Small World phenomena

Social Networking tools like Facebook yield recognisable small world phenomena, that is particular kinds of social graphs that facilitate particular kinds of interaction and information exchange.

Process Lecture: Wikis and Coursework

These slides describe the use of a coursework wiki and the proposed information architecture to support the goals of the coursework.

Looking at the Web Science 2009 Conference

The first International Conference on Web Science is taking place in Athens, concurrently with this course. The material here will allow you to get familiar with the conference presentations and posters so that you can write a summary of the conference from a particular topical perspective. (Both the attached HTML summaries are currently in draft form and need to have the preview images and metadata checked.)

OpenCL Lecture

Brief overview for the motivation and architecture of OpenCL

Mapping the Web and Web Science

This tutorial material introduces an activity in which the students are asked to redraw Tim Berners-Lee's map of the Web to include Web Science.

Who Invented the Web?

It is received wisdom that Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web; but there is a lot more technology and historical context that plays a part.

Study Skills: Precis and Argumentation

Society is catching up with the implications of the Web; its use is not straightforward and well-understood. Web Scientists will need to be able to handle arguments about equivocal perspectives on the Web's impact.

The Web Social

Sociology of the Internet and the Sociology of the Web

Research in IAM - MSc Briefings

This share contains a set of slides intended to help Web Technology MSc students become acquainted with the research in IAM and so to choose a topic for their summer projects and dissertations.

Mapping the Web

Different attempts to 'map' different aspects of the web. How do you impose some sort of high level understanding onto the Web Graph?

Introduction to Hypermedia

What is the user experience of hypermedia? Common hypertext structures plus Ryman's hypertext novel "253"

Open Access

A current movement for organising and disseminating the world’s research through Web technology

Repositories

An examination of how repositories add extra capabilities to web sites

Posters for Web Science DTC Industrial Day

These posters were created by Web Science MSc and PhD students as a discussion point with representatives from the DTC Industrial Advisory Group.