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Web Science

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Synonyms

Internet science; Network science; Science of the internet; Science of the web; Sociology of the web

Glossary

Graph, Webgraph:

A graph is a set of vertices (or nodes) V and a set of edges E. When we think of the World Wide Web as a graph, V is the set of pages and E the directed hyperlinks. In a social network, V is the people and E the set of relationships

Hypertext Markup Language:

(HTML) A language which enables tools such as Web browsers to display information, particularly webpages

Hypertext Transfer Protocol:

(HTTP) An application protocol which allows hypermedia to be transferred across a distributed space

Hypertext:

Text and other objects connected in a nonlinear way by hyperlinks. These links allow associative browsing and therefore impose fewer constraints on the reader than linear text

Linked Data Web:

That portion of the Web where HTTP and URIs are used to link individual pieces of structured data, rather than documents

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This entry was written while the author was supported by the EPSRC project SOCIAM (EP/J017728/1).

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  1. Web and Internet Science Group, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Kieron O’Hara

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Institute for Web Science and Technologies, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

    Thomas Gottron

  2. YU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Stefan Schlobach

  3. Institute for Web Science and Technologies – WeST, University of Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstraße 1, 56070, Koblenz, Germany

    Steffen Staab

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O’Hara, K. (2018). Web Science. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_131

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