Introduction to the 1st International Web Observatory Workshop WOW2013 held May 14th 2013 in conjunction with the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference, Rio de Janeiro. http://wow.oerc.ox.ac.uk/

1. David De Roure
Wolfgang Nejdl
1st International Web Observatory Workshop
WOW2013
May 14th 2013, held in conjunction with the
22nd International World Wide Web Conference
Rio de Janeiro
http://wow.oerc.ox.ac.uk/

2. Web as lens
Web as artefact

3. Since WWW2012
• Web Observatory Panel at Web Science day of
WWW2012, Lyon
• WSTnet workshop, Web Sci 2012, Chicago (also other
locations)
• Web Observatory workshop at Microsoft Faculty
Summit, Seattle
• W3C community group F2F, ISWC, Boston (and
teleconference series starting April 2013)
• Building Web Obs workshop, Web Sci 2013, Paris
• WOW2013 at WWW2013, Rio

4. Query
Plug and Play
analytics
Subscribe
Anatomy of an observatory
ongoing collection
“Non-Consumptive Research”

5. Plug and play
observatories
Technicalandbusinessinterface

6. Knowledge
InfrastructureKnowledge
Objects
Descriptive
layer
Observatories
Annotation

7. First phase - Information sharing
Second phase – Best practice guidelines
http://www.w3.org/community/webobservatory/

8. Discussion
What’s in the
box?
What does the
web page look
like for
observatories
joining?

9. Keynote: Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab "The Challenges of Building Interoperable
Web Observatories”
Building Web Observatories [Functional aspects, architectures and
best practices]
• Building a Multimedia Web Observatory Platform
• Social and Semantic Driven Web Harvesting
• The Southampton University Web Observatory
• Trajectories through Social Machines
Presentations and Panel: Linking Web Observatories [Interoperability
challenges and guidelines]
• Building Semantically-Enriched Web Observatories
• Interoperability of Social Media Observatories
• Some Considerations for a Web Observatory
• Observing Observatories: Web Observatories should use Linked Data
Building Web Observatories Workshop at WebSci 2013
https://sites.google.com/site/bwebobs13/

10. Keynote: Prof Nigel Shadbolt “Challenges in Social Machines”
• Social Machines: A Unified Paradigm to Describe Social Web-Oriented
Systems
Understanding Social Machines
• Towards a Classification Framework for Social Machines
• Observing Social Machines Part 1: Understanding the Development of
Social Machines
• The HTP Model: Understanding the Development of Social Machines
Building Social Machines
• A Few Thoughts on Engineering Social Machines
• Linked Data in Crowdsourcing Purposive Social Network
• "The Crowd Keeps Me In Shape": Social Psychology and the Present
and Future of Health Social Machines
Privacy and Information Sensitivity
• Crime Applications and Social Machines: Crowdsourcing Sensitive Data
• Pseudonymity in Social Machines
Theory and Practice of Social Machines at WWW2013
http://sociam.org/www2013/

11. 13:00-14:30 OBSERVATORY CASE STUDIES
* Karissa Mckelvey and Filippo Menczer. Design and Prototyping of a Social
Media Observatory
* Jérôme Kunegis. KONECT – The Koblenz Network Collection
Marie Joan Kristine Gloria, Deborah L. McGuinness, Joanne S. Luciano and
Qingpeng Zhang.Exploration in Web Science: Instruments for Web
Observatories
15:00-16:30 USING OBSERVATORIES
* Nattiya Kanhabua and Wolfgang Nejdl. Understanding the Diversity of
Tweets in the Time of Outbreaks
Ramine Tinati, Thanassis Tiropanis and Leslie Carr. An Approach for Using
Wikipedia to Measure the Flow of Trends across Countries
Ionut Trestian, Chunjing Xiao and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic. A Glance at an
Overlooked Part of the World Wide Web
Short introductions of other observatory activities represented in the room
WOW2013 Web Observatory Workshop at WWW2013

12. 17:00-18:30 KEYNOTE AND OBSERVATORY ENGINEERING
Keynote: Prof Ramesh Jain "Observing Personal and Societal Health using
EventShop”
Patrice Seyed, Tim Lebo, Evan Patton, James Mccusker and Deborah
McGuinness.SemantEco: A Next-Generation Web Observatory
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles. Living Analytics Methods for the Web Observatory
18:30-20:00 OBSERVATORY ECOSYSTEM
* Paul Booth, Paul Gaskell and Christopher Hughes. The Economics of
Data: Quality, Value & Exchange in Web Observatories
Ian Brown, Wendy Hall and Lisa Harris. From search to observation
Discussion of the future Web Observatory R&D agenda
WOW2013 Web Observatory Workshop at WWW2013
http://wow.oerc.ox.ac.uk/

13. Thanks to
everybody!