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{{short description|UK Charitable Trust}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox organization
| name                = Web Science Trust
| logo                = Transparent-WST-logo-iconWiki.png
| image_size          = 
| founded_date        = {{Start date|2006}}
| type                = [[Private company limited by guarantee]]
| key_people          = [[JP Rangaswami]], chair of the board<br />[[Wendy Hall]], managing director
| location            = [[University of Southampton]], U.K. / [[London]], U.K. (registered office)
| staff               = 
| website             = [http://www.webscience.org/ www.webscience.org]
}}

The '''Web Science Trust''' ('''WST''') is a UK Charitable Trust with the aim of supporting the global development of [[Web science]]. It was originally started in 2006 as a joint effort between [[MIT]] and [[University of Southampton]] to formalise the social and technical aspects of the [[World Wide Web]]. The trust coordinates a set of international "WSTNet Laboratories" that include academic research groups in the emerging area of Web science.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.webscience.org/wstnet-laboratories-2/|title=WSTNet Laboratories|date=23 March 2012}}</ref>

It was first announced at MIT on 2 November 2006 as the '''Web Science Research Initiative''' ('''WSRI'''), changing its name in 2009 to the Web Science Trust.<ref name="WSRI, About" >{{cite web
  |title=About The Web Science Trust
  |url=http://webscience.org/web-science-trust/about-us/
  |publisher=The Web Science Trust
}}</ref> [[Tim Berners-Lee]] originally led this program, now run by a Board of Trustees, which aims to attract government and private funds to support their many activities. The Web Science Trust supports curriculum development in universities and research institutions to train [[future generations]] of Web Scientists. Given the similarities between Web Science and Information Science, Web Science overlaps with the interests of the [[ISchool]] movement,<ref name="ISCHOOLS">{{cite web
  |title=ISchools home page
  |url=http://www.ischools.org/
}}</ref> particularly in the United States, but focuses more specifically on the Web itself. The annual Web Science conference brings together participants from many fields including those studying both the social and the computational aspects of the World Wide Web.

Areas of interest include:
* [[Social network]]s
* [[Social machine]]
* [[Collaboration]]
* Understanding [[online community]]
* Analyzing the human interactions inherent in [[social media]]
* Web observatories
* Developing "accountability" and other mechanisms for enhancing [[privacy]] and trust on the Web.

== Key personnel ==
Directors/trustees
* [[Wendy Hall]] (managing director)
* [[Nigel Shadbolt]]
* [[James Hendler]]
* [[Noshir Contractor]]
* [[JP Rangaswami]] (chairman)
* [[George Metakides]]
* Steffen Staab
* [[Anni Rowland-Campbell]]
* [[Bill Thompson (technology writer)|Bill Thompson]]
Fellows
* [[Tim Berners-Lee]] (also Founding Director)
* Sir John Taylor

Patron
* [[Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie]]

== Conferences<!--[[Conference on Web Science]] redirect to this section. If the section title is changed, please change the redirect target, as well.--> ==
The first Web Science conference (WebSci09: Society on Line) was sponsored in part by WSRI and was held in Greece in March 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.websci09.org/ |title=Home |website=websci09.org}}</ref> The conference had over 300 registrants from a number of fields including computing, social science, law, economics, philosophy, psychology. The conference has since continued as a yearly event. The first fully virtual Web Science conference was held in July 2020 as a result of travel restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Web Science conferences
!Conference
!Date
!Place
!Keynote speakers
!registrants 
|-
|[https://websci24.webscience.org/ Web Science 2024]
|21-24 May 2024
|{{Flag icon|Germany}} Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany
|[[Eszter Hargittai]], [[Jie Tang]], Dirk Hovy, Hannes Werthner
|
|-
|[https://websci23.webscience.org/ Web Science 2023]
|April 30-May 1, 2023
|{{Flag icon|USA}} Austin, Texas, USA
|[[Robert Metcalfe|Bob Metcalfe]], Dhiraj Murthy, [[David G. Rand|David Rand]]
|
|-
|[https://websci22.webscience.org/ Web Science 2022]
|26-29 June 2022
|Barcelona, Spain (Hybrid conference)
|Leila Zia, M.C. Schraefel
|
|-
|[https://websci21.webscience.org Web Science 2021]
|21-25 June 2021
|{{Flag icon|UK}} Southampton, UK (Virtual conference)
|Deen Freelon, Martha Lane Fox
|
|-
|[https://websci20.webscience.org/ Web Science 2020]
|7-10 July 2020
|{{Flag icon|UK}} Southampton, UK (Virtual conference)
|Jim Hendler, Gina Neff
|
|-
|[http://websci19.webscience.org/ Web Science 2019]
|June 30 - July 3, 2019
|{{Flag icon|USA}} Boston, USA
|Fabien Gandon, Sandra González-Bailón
|
|-
|[https://websci18.webscience.org/ Web Science 2018] 
|27-30 May 2018
|{{Flag|Netherlands}}, Amsterdam
|Tim Berners-Lee, John Domingue
|
|-
| [http://websci17.org/ Web Science 2017]
| 26–28 June 2017
| {{Flag icon|USA}} [[Troy, NY]], USA
| Steffen Staab, Jen Golbeck
| 
|-
| [http://websci16.org/ Web Science 2016]
| 22–25 May 2016
| {{Flag icon|DE}} [[Hannover]], Germany
| [[Daniel Miller (anthropologist)|Daniel Miller]], Andrew Tomkins, Daniel Olmedilla, [[Ricardo Baeza-Yates]], [[Jure Leskovec]], [[Helen Margetts]]
| 
|-
| [http://websci15.org/ Web Science 2015]
| 28 June–1 July 2015
| {{Flag icon|UK}} [[Oxford]], UK
| Markus Strohmaier, Mia Consalvo, Rachel Gibson
| 
|-
| {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20131029224528/http://websci14.org/ Web Science 2014]}}
| 23–25 June 2014
| {{Flag icon|USA}} [[Bloomington, Indiana]], USA
| [[Wendy Hall]], J.P. Rangaswami, [[Laura DeNardis]], Daniel Tunkelang
| 
|-
| [http://www.websci13.org/ Web Science 2013]
| 2–4 May 2013
| {{Flag icon|France}} [[Paris]], France
| [[Vint Cerf]], [[Cory Doctorow]]
| 
|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120902111510/http://www.websci12.org/? Web Science 2012]
| 22–24 June 2012
| {{Flag icon|USA}} [[Evanston, Illinois|Evanston]], Illinois, USA
| [[Luis von Ahn]], Sinan Aral, [[danah boyd]], [[Jon Kleinberg]], [[Sonia Livingstone]], Siva Vaidyanathan
| 200
|-
|[http://www.websci11.org/ Web Science 2011]
|14–17 June 2011
|{{Flag icon|Germany}} [[Koblenz]], Germany
|[[Barry Wellman]], [[Jaime Teevan]]
|190
|-
|[http://www.websci10.org/ Web Science 2010]
|26–27 April 2010
|{{Flag icon|USA}} [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]], North Carolina, USA
|[[Sir Tim Berners-Lee]], [[Jennifer Chayes]], Melissa R. Gilbert
|
|-
|[http://www.websci09.org/ Web Science 2009]
|18–20 March 2009
|{{Flag icon|Greece}} [[Athens]], Greece
|[[Noshir Contractor]], [[Nigel Shadbolt]], Jacques Bus, [[Sir Tim Berners-Lee]]
|300+
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of I-Schools]]
* [[World Wide Web]]
* [[Webometrics]]
* [[Web Engineering]]

== Bibliography ==
*{{cite news   | last = Lohr  | first = Steve
  | title = Group of University Researchers to Make Web Science a Field of Study
  | work = [[The New York Times]]
  | date = November 2, 2006
  | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/technology/02compute.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
  }}
*{{cite journal
 |author=[[Tim Berners-Lee]], [[Wendy Hall]], [[James Hendler]], [[Nigel Shadbolt]], [[Daniel J. Weitzner]]
 |date=August 2006
 | title =  Creating a Science of the Web
 | journal = [[Science (journal)|Science]]
 | volume = 313
 | issue = 11
 | url = http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/313/5788/769?ijkey=o66bodkFqpcCs&keytype=ref&siteid=sci
 | doi =  10.1126/science.1126902
 | pages =  769–71
 | pmid=16902115
 |s2cid=5104030
 | url-access =subscription
 }}
*{{cite journal
 | author = Julià Minguillon, Daniel Riera, [[Kieron O'Hara]] and [[Wendy Hall]]
 |date=October 2008
 | title =  Web Science (dossier)
 | journal = UOC Papers
 | issue = 7
 | url = http://www.uoc.edu/uocpapers/7/dt/eng/webscience.html
 | pages =  25
 }}
*{{cite journal
 |author=[[James Hendler]], [[Nigel Shadbolt]], [[Wendy Hall]], [[Tim Berners-Lee]], [[Daniel J. Weitzner]]
 |date=July 2008
 | title =  Web science: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the web
 | journal = [[Communications of the ACM]]
 | volume = 51
 | issue = 7
 | doi =  10.1145/1364782.1364798
 | pages = 60–69
 | doi-access = free
 }}
* [http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=web-science Web Science: Studying the Internet to Protect Our Future], an article by [[Tim Berners-Lee]].

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website}}
* [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/wsri.html Press release]
* [http://www.nesta.org.uk/innovation-edge-web-science/?playaudio=1 Audio: Web Science: A Conversation with the Inventor of the Web]

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