web observatories
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Web Observatory and Discovery Informatics workshop. Microsoft, Redmond, 18 July 2012TRANSCRIPT
David De Roure
Web Observatories
For the Benefit of Humanity
Technical• Multiple observatories• Datasets and dataflows• Analytics• Tools and software• Automation• Notification (real time)• Provenance• Secure• Linkable• Programmatic access• Visualisation (eyepiece?)
Social• Researchers• Managers• Shared artefacts
(intermediate results, annotation)
• Shared methods• Collaborative analysis• Policy• Responsible innovation• Training• Standards!
An observatory is sociotechnical
Query Installanalytic Subscribe
Anatomy of an observatory
ongoing collection
• Articulating the business and technical requirements for the Web Observatory
• Need all observatory stakeholders, and links to other W3C activities
• Starting by identifying existing observatories, current practice and use cases
• Preliminary discussions: need to describe observatories, datasets, data flows, policies, and to share results and methods
• Announced at WWW, WEBIST and WebSci 2012• http://www.w3.org/community/webobservatory/
Web Observatory Community Group
• Scoped as (virtual) Web Science Observatory• Web as an artefact (data about Web vs on)• What are the questions that a Web Scientist wants to ask
of the observatory? In 2020?• Reproducible/Reconstructable/Responsible Research• Feedback loop – astronomy is special case (locations of
stars not socially constituted…)• Start with tractable project (e.g. twitterology, timeline)• Incentives to deposit?• Closed vs open, disclosure risk• Observatory management, policy and legal agreements
part of value-add
WSTNet workshop at Web Science 2012
• Events: Microsoft Faculty Summit workshop, Digital Research 2012 (10th September, Oxford)
• Encouraging you to sign up • Setting up regular meeting time• Introductions, check for stakeholder coverage• Interlinking with other W3C activities• “Observing the observatories” – exemplars, scope• Emerging use cases…
Next Steps for W3C Community Group
NRAO/AUI/NSF
telescopes for the naked mindDatascopes
From Signal to Understanding
1. Web as lens
2. Web as artefact
3. Web as
infrastructure
[email protected]/people/dder
blogs.nature.com/eresearch
@dder
http://webscience.org/http://www.w3.org/community/webobservatory/ http://www.digitalsocialresearch.net/