[Sociam-soton] Re: Meeting on Tuesday 22 April

[Wendy Hall]

Sorry - i can't be with you all this afternoon. There is a lot to report from the conference. It was very well attended - the Koreans did really well and have made money on the conference so IW3C2 is pleased!

Ian has written an excellent blog about the "next 25 years of the Web" panel which I'm sure he will add to the folder Ramine has set up. And I hope others will report on the conference itself and the Web Science track which had a really good attendance. The papers were excellent I thought, although the track has caused some controversy with the main conference programme chairs since they weren't involved in the refereeing they are accusing us of letting in conference papers that wouldn't have make the main research track by the back door. We have to think carefully how to handle this in future conferences. I am talking to Jim and Dave about Web Science at WWW2015 (Florence) and WWW2016 (Montreal - Jim is conference chair). For my sins I'm now Chair of IW3C2, so I'll guess I'll be central to the decision making process anyway.

Both the SOCM and the WOW workshops were excellent. I attended most of both of them. Both workshops attracted a good audience other than attendees from Southampton. I was worried when we walked into the WOW workshop on the second day. It clashed (as ever) with the LInked Data workshop (and another workshop on open data I believe) and most people went to Linked Data for the opening keynote. So the WOW was two thirds people from Southampton for the first session. But by the end of the day we had around 40 people in the audience - so a significant majority not from Southampton. The papers were great as was the discussion. As ever, every time we hold one of these workshops our thinking about the Web Observatory moves on and we get more people interested. Jim's papers about the schema for the WO that his group have been developing -  both in workshop paper (given by his lovely PDRA) and the paper they had in the Web Science track (which Jim presented) - were excellent. We must start promoting this more and indexing datasets that are published according to this schema. It has got the Semantic Web community interested in what we are doing anyway :-) A number of them came to Jim's presentation in the Web Science track.

The only other thing I would comment on is about the entertainment for the conference dinner - fine for the chaps, not so fine for the chapesses!  I think there were probably even less women attending the conference than ever - could have been because it was in Korea - but it doesn't bode well for the conference going forward. I'm putting pressure on the Italians to help make the conference more diverse next year!! Everyone is looking forward to Florence, although the organisation is bound to be much more chaotic

Wendy

Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng
Dean, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
Tel: +44 2380 592388





On 21 Apr 2014, at 17:18, Ramine Tinati wrote:

> Hi all,
>  
> I’ve created a folder in the SOCIAM Google drive for the reports/blog posts for the WWW conference.
>  
> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwLgRZF5ibJgdUhXcGR4V2I1aWs&usp=sharing
>  
> Thanks,
> Ramine
>  
> From: sociam-soton-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:sociam-soton-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Susan Davies
> Sent: 11 April 2014 16:53
> To: 'Sociam-soton at ecs.soton.ac.uk'
> Subject: [Sociam-soton] Meeting on Tuesday 22 April
>  
> Hi All
>  
> Please see below the agenda for our meeting on Tuesday 22 April at 12.30-2.00pm in the Seminar Room, 3077.  Lunch will be provided.  The agenda is below, but if you have any additional items please let me know.
>  
> Agenda:
>  
> 1.      Reports from WWW Workshops (SOCM & WOW)
> 2.      PDS Workshop, 6 May, Southampton
> 3.      Conference attendance (decisions)
> 4.      Contribution to Human Computation Journal (Elena)
> 5.      AOB
> 6.      Next Meeting: Monday 28 April – presentation by Jason Sadler, GeoData Institute
>  
> Following this meeting, we will move into the Boardroom 4073 for the all-hands Skype meeting, where everyone will be asked to give an update on their research.
>  
> Many thanks
>  
> Susan
> ______________________
> Susan Davies
> Project Coordination Manager
> Web and Internet Science Research Group
> Electronics & Computer Science
> University of Southampton
> Southampton SO17 1BJ
>  
> T 023 8059 3523
> F 023 8059 2783
>  
> From: sociam-soton-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:sociam-soton-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Susan Davies
> Sent: 01 April 2014 10:43
> To: 'Sociam-soton at ecs.soton.ac.uk'
> Subject: [Sociam-soton] Next Meeting Tuesday 22 April
>  
> Hi All
>  
> We have decided to cancel the Southampton team meeting planned for Monday 14 April (due to the Easter break and some people being on holiday).  The next meeting will now take place on Tuesday 22 April at 12.30-2.00pm in the Seminar Room, 3077.  Lunch will be provided. 
>  
> Following that meeting, we will move into the Boardroom 4073 for the all-hands Skype meeting.  We may still have an all-hands Skype on the 8th or 15th April (Nichola sent a Doodle poll around yesterday), although this may just be a subset of people and I’m thinking it could be used to prepare for the PDS Southampton Workshop we talked about yesterday (date for that to be confirmed, but hopefully sometime in May).  Hope that all makes sense!
>  
> Many thanks
>  
> Susan
> ______________________
> Susan Davies
> Project Coordination Manager
> Web and Internet Science Research Group
> Electronics & Computer Science
> University of Southampton
> Southampton SO17 1BJ
>  
> T 023 8059 3523
> F 023 8059 2783
>  
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