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Abstract

Originally intended to be a simple way to share and interlink documents over the Internet, the Web has evolved into one of the most complex technologies currently available. This transformation took place in a short period of time, and in a rather chaotic manner, leading to the current lack of structure, security and confidentiality including billions of duplicate information pieces. Thus to overcome such issues, several key researchers contributing to the Web and related sciences are pointing out the need for a new emerging science, the so-called Web Science.

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    http://webscience.org/.

  2. 2.

    http://www.w3.org/History.html.

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    http://gopherproject.org/Software/Gopher.

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    http://infomesh.net/2001/enquire/manual/.

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    http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.

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    http://www94.web.cern.ch/WWW94/.

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    http://www.ietf.org/.

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    http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html.

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    Available at http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/expertsurveys/2008survey/default.xhtml.

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    http://oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html?page=1.

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  1. STI Innsbruck, ICT-Technologiepark, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 21a, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    Prof. Dieter Fensel, Dr. Federico Michele Facca & Ioan Toma

  2. Institute AIFB, Building 11.40, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Englerstr. 11, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Dr. Elena Simperl

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Fensel, D., Facca, F.M., Simperl, E., Toma, I. (2011). Web Science. In: Semantic Web Services. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19193-0_2

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