EAGER: Using the Web for Science and Society

在过去的十年中，Web已经成为人类通信史上最常用和最具变革性的社交应用之一。 我们对网络的日常使用取决于早在网络发明之前就发生的计算机科学的基本发展。今天吗？例如，谷歌的搜索引擎是基于信息检索的发展，其遗产可以追溯到20世纪60年代。20世纪90年代的创新为现代搜索引擎提供了至关重要的算法，这些算法对网络使用至关重要。Web使用的许多有趣的方面，如社交网络，标签，数据集成，信息检索和Web本体，已经出现？社会计算？在一些顶尖的信息学校和计算机项目中。然而，在太多的情况下，Web被专门作为一种技术或社会人工制品来研究，而不是作为一个独立的研究对象，其架构特性积极地塑造了它所支持的人类交互。该项目的结果将定义跨学科的方法，可用于帮助开发关键的科学，技术，并最终在Web科学的新兴跨学科领域的核心课程。我们将专注于建立理解和开发系统的方法，使大量的用户一起工作，形成社区，以解决科学和社会问题。

In the past decade, the Web has become one of the most used and transformative social applications in the history of human communications. Our everyday use of the Web depends on fundamental developments in computer science that took place long before the Web was invented. Today?s search engines, for example, are based on developments in information retrieval with a legacy going back to the 1960s. The innovations of the 1990s provided the crucial algorithms underlying the modern search engines that are so fundamental to Web use. Many interesting aspects of Web use, such as social networking, tagging, data integration, information retrieval, and Web ontologies, have emerged as ?social computing? at some of the top information schools and computing programs. However, in too many cases the Web is studied exclusively as a technical or social artifact rather than as an object of study in its own right, whose architectural properties actively shape the human interactions it supports. The results of this project will define interdisciplinary methodologies that can be used to help develop the critical science, technology, and eventually curriculum at the heart of the emerging interdisciplinary field of Web Science. We will focus on establishing the methods of understanding and developing systems that allow large numbers of users to work together to form communities to solve scientific and social problems.