The Web and Internet Science (WAIS) group researches large scale systems, exemplified by the Web and Internet, that combine computational, data and human components.
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 Crowd Sourcing
Internet of Things and Cyberphysical Systems
Information Provenance
Open Access, Open Science and Open Systems
WAIS hosts a number of pan-university initiatives and participates in a variety of other related activities:
Web Science Institute (WSI) coordinates and realizes multi-disciplinary education, research, and innovation activities around Web Science across Departments and Faculties at Southampton.
Research Software Group is hosted by WAIS and provides software engineering expertise to enable novel research across the University
EPrints Services, originally established in September 2006, is a commercial enterprise that offers services based on open access and open data software developed in WAIS.
We are at the core of several global education, research, and enterprise networks and engage with the wider community to address some of the greatest economic and societal challenges facing the World Wide Web today. These include
Open Data Institute is a non-profit company funded by Technology Strategy Board. Its goal is to fully release the potential of open data on both economical and social levels, and enable open data to generate demands, create opptunitities for new types of businesses. WAIS is a founding partner of the ODI.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a international community that develop and distribute royal-free standards related to World Wide Web. W3C aims to continously drive the growth of Web and improve the security, trustness and privacy of the Web. The members of WAIS group have been actively participated in the standarisation work of W3C.