[Air-L] WOW17: Web Observatories, Social Machines and Decentralisation workshop at WWW

Amy G Amy.Guy at ed.ac.uk
Wed Jan 18 03:48:15 PST 2017


This deadline has now been extended to Sunday 22nd!

On 16 January 2017 at 22:17, Amy G <Amy.Guy at ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been a long time subscriber of this list, first time poster. I'm
> consistently impressed with the quality of information, links, and
> discussions that do the rounds here :)
>
> I'd like to share a call for a workshop at this years' World Wide Web
> conference that may be of interest. The deadline is in two days (18th Jan)
> so apologies for the short notice, but perhaps if you're looking for
> somewhere to submit a work-in-progress, vision paper, or small project
> report along the workshop themes, this could be a good opportunity.
>
> *Workshop on Web Observatories, Social Machines and Decentralisation*
>
> http://www.sociam.org/wow2017/
>
> Topics include: analysing and understanding social media users and data;
> data sharing, re-use of data and applications; study of social machines;
> decentralisation of Web infrastructure and services; emerging research
> challenges when these are combined with the Internet of Things (IoT); the
> challenges of interoperability and distributed analytics across the growing
> number of Web services, Web Observatories, and most recently, IoT devices.
> We will also discuss the pressing issues around the decentralisation of Web
> infrastructure and social machines, with a specific focus on the
> decentralisation of scholarly communications.
>
> The workshop accepts HTML submissions, as well as old-fashioned PDF.
>
> The workshop is in Perth at the beginning of April. Hope to see you there!
>
> Amy
>



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