SGER: A Web Sociologist's Workbench

提案ID: IIS-0624725PI: Garcia-Molina， hector机构：Stanford university标题：SGER：网络社会学家的工作台摘要该提案旨在设计和构建集成的软件工具，以帮助社会科学家分析万维网材料的大时间序列快照。自2001年以来，研究人员的WebBase设施一直在生成这种特定主题的Web集合。在卡特里娜飓风灾难之后，每天从400个网站收集页面。该地点集是由美国国会图书馆和加州数字图书馆的工作人员选择的。提出的工具将帮助社会科学家在时间序列中跟踪主题的发展，比如卡特里娜飓风的收藏。提出的软件体系结构是模块化的。需求、属性和相关功能是从斯坦福大学通信系的计算机科学研究人员和教师之间的讨论中确定的，这些社会科学应用和分析是在斯坦福大学通信系进行的。这个项目本质上是跨学科的，具有挑战性和创新性。因此，它在推动研究能力的界限方面存在风险。成功的结果将通过提供对万维网内容进行研究的新方法，对社会科学产生广泛的影响。收集的数据将会公开。，以及由此产生的新软件工具。

Proposal ID: IIS-0624725PI: Garcia-Molina, HectorInstitution: Stanford UniversityTitle: SGER: A Web Sociologist's WorkbenchAbstractThis proposal is to design and build integrated software tools that will help social scientists analyze large time series snapshots of World Wide Web materials. The researchers' WebBase facility has been generating such topic specific Web collections since 2001. During the aftermath of the Katrina hurricane disaster pages were collected from a set of 400 Web sites every day. The site set was selected by personnel at the Library of Congress and the California Digital Library. The proposed tools will help social scientists track the development of topics across a time series such as the Katrina collections. The software architecture proposed is modular. Requirements, attributes, and associated functionalities were identified from discussions between the Computer Science researchers and faculty at Stanford's Communications Department where such social science applications and analyses are pursued. This project is inherently cross disciplinary, challenging and innovative. As such, it involves risk in pushing the boundaries of research capability. Successful outcome will broadly impact the social sciences by providing new means for conducting research over World Wide Web content. Data collected will be publicly available., as well as the new software tools coming out of this effort.