Web and Internet Science
About us
Our work examines the Web and the platforms it facilitates, in order to understand its technical, economic and societal impact.
We develop innovative software tools and contribute to technical standards that enhance the future Web architecture.
Expertise
WAIS brings together expertise in:
- data science
- human accessibility of information
- semantic web-linked and open data
- hypertext communication and narratives
- social networks
- educational systems
- social machines and crowdsourcing
- the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems
- information provenance
- open access, open science and open systems
Contributions
We are part of several global education, research, and enterprise networks. We engage with the wider community to address some of the greatest economic and societal challenges facing the World Wide Web today. These include the:
- , which brings together research labs around the world who specialize in web science.
- is a non-profit company funded by Technology Strategy Board. Its goal is to release the potential of open data on both economical and social levels, and enable open data to generate demands, create opportunitities for new types of businesses.
- is an international community that develops and distributes royal-free standards related to World Wide Web.
- is a non-profit orgainisation to foster collaboration within research communities in Europe and increase the communications between the research and industrial sectors.
Contact us
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