A paper by Jonathon S. Hare, David P. Dupplaw, Paul H. Lewis, Wendy Hall and Kirk Martinez, presenting new techniques to allow multimedia web content to be leveraged during the archiving process.
A paper by Max Van Kleek, Daniel Alexander Smith, Ramine Tinati, Kieron O’Hara, Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt on methods to overcome privacy issues by keeping data under individuals’ control and enabling them to participate in Web-Observatory style analysis in situ.
Professor Dame Wendy Hall’s blog for the British Computer Society, which is part of its campaign to encourage women to consider a career in I.T. She discusses her career history, how she came to be passionate about Computer Science and the reasons for women being better represented in the new discipline of Web Science than in other areas of I.T.
A paper by Wendy Hall, Thanassis Tiropanis, Ramine Tinati, Xin Wang, Markus Luczak-Rösch and Elena Simperl on Web Observatories. The opportunities for Big Data analytics are discussed, as well as the challenges, including the balance between fewer machines and data sets giving high performance on the one hand and a large number of distributed, diverse data sets potentially giving lower performance on the other hand.
Sally Mouakkad from the British Consulate interviews Professor Dame Wendy Hall to mark the the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. They discuss Linked Data, the Web Science Trust and possible trends in Web Science over the next 10 years.
Paul Smart, Elena Simperl and Nigel Shadbolt propose a working definition for Social Machines, describe their characteristics and discuss the future for research in this area.
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt gives a presentation and is interviewed (at the 1 hour and 30 minutes point of the video) at the CeBit global conference held in Hanover, Germany on the 11th of March. He discusses individual rights and governmental responsibilities in relation to personal data, the U.K. Open Data Institute and the power of Open Data to provide information which can help governments and companies improve services and products.
Professor Dame Wendy Hall in the Daily Telegraph, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. She discusses how dramatically the Web has changed people’s lives, but warns that governments must take steps to protect their citizens’ personal data.
Professor Dame Wendy Hall on the Agenda show on German international broadcast channel Deutsche Welle, arguing for the need for a human rights charter relating to the Internet, detailing individuals’ and organisations’ rights and responsibilities. Other guests on the show include Vice-President of the European Commmission, Neelie Kroes, CEO of the Big data company Datameer, Stefan Groschupf and CEO of the securities company Giesecke & Devrient, Dr. Walter Schlebusch.
Professor Dame Wendy Hall in a debate in the U.K. parliament on the emerging trends of the Internet.