Web Science Lexicon
Welcome to the Web Science Lexicon, a resource which presents an overview of the Web Science subject. Building upon the ideas of (Vafopoulos, 2011) and (White et al. 2011) the Lexicon provides an overview of the Web Science subject, by providing a list of constituent subjects which form part of Web Science. Each subject page provides a brief description of the subject, as well as links to Web Science conference papers relating to that subject. Subject pages can be accessed by utilising the 'book navigation' structure on the left of this page, or by browsing the complete list of topics at the base of this page.
The Lexicon topics were determined by a thematic analysis of Web Science taught programmes and Web Science conference papers, in order to identify themes which frequently occur as part of Web Science.
You can find out more about the Lexicon and it's intended purpose in this Youtube introduction by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YViYy6v0P8A&t=1s
References
Vafopoulos, Michalis N., Web Science Subject Categorization (WSSC) (June 15, 2011). Proceedings of ACM WebSci, pp. 1-13, June 2011. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1918914
White, S., Croitoru, M., Bazan, S., Cerri, S., Davis, H. C., Jonquet, C., … Vafopoulos, M. (2011). Negotiating the Web Science Curriculum Development through Shared Educational Artefacts. ACM WebSci ’11. Koblenz, Germany. Retrieved from http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/22141/
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This map shows the locations around the world which teach Web Science programmes or modules, which were identifed and used as part of this study of the Web Science subject.
Web Science Topics
The following section includes the complete list of topics identified from an analysis of Web Science taught programmes and conference material. It is presented here as an unstructured list, ordered according to the number of occurrences of each topic within the analysis. This presentation of the topics is included to illustrate the prevalence of topics within the Web Science community studied. Topics without links represent entries which have a coding frequency of less than 5, or have been merged with another related topic page, e.g. 'Social Machines' was merged with related topic, Social Networking' for inclusion within the Lexicon structure.
| Topic Name | Freq. | Topic Name | Freq. |
| Web Society | 231 | Geo-tagging | 12 |
| Web Analysis | 218 | Information and Communications | 12 |
| Social Networking | 192 | Security | 12 |
| User Behaviour | 145 | Social Machines | 12 |
| Content Analysis | 121 | Visualisation | 12 |
| Data Mining | 104 | Web Development | 12 |
| Digital Sociology | 91 | Academic Publishing | 11 |
| Psychology | 84 | Accessibility | 11 |
| Social Science | 79 | Cybercrime | 11 |
| Microblogging | 77 | Ethics | 11 |
| Linked Data | 59 | Business | 10 |
| Big Data | 57 | Cloud Computing | 10 |
| Privacy and Trust | 52 | Digital Ethnography | 10 |
| Media | 50 | Knowledge Patterns | 10 |
| Semantic Web | 49 | Online Offline Community | 10 |
| Network Science | 47 | RDF | 10 |
| Research Methodology | 45 | Arts and §Culture | 9 |
| General Web Science | 43 | eCommerce | 9 |
| Networks | 42 | Artificial Intelligence | 8 |
| Virtual Community | 42 | Cognitive Science | 8 |
| Online Engagement | 41 | Mobile Web | 8 |
| Web Modelling | 41 | Recommender Systems | 8 |
| Network Theory | 36 | Web Governance | 8 |
| Web Technologies | 34 | Democracy | 7 |
| Politics | 32 | e-learning | 7 |
| Web 2.0 | 32 | Information Systems | 7 |
| Web Graph | 32 | Philosophy | 7 |
| Algorithms | 31 | Web Design | 7 |
| Sociology | 31 | Digital Copyright | 6 |
| Geography | 28 | Internet of Things | 6 |
| Web Architecture | 28 | Online Advertising | 6 |
| Web Search | 28 | Risk Management | 6 |
| Web Ontologies | 27 | Systems Design | 6 |
| HCI Human Computer Interaction | 26 | Computer Graphics | 5 |
| Web Archiving | 25 | Cyber Bullying | 5 |
| Statistical Analysis | 24 | Disaster Response | 5 |
| Communication Science | 23 | Hardware | 5 |
| Crowdsourcing | 23 | Project Management | 5 |
| Quality Management | 23 | Quality Control | 5 |
| Web Publishing | 21 | Scientific Method | 5 |
| Topic Modelling | 19 | Criminology | 4 |
| Web Applications | 19 | Digital Literacy | 4 |
| Open Data | 18 | Folksonomy | 4 |
| Government | 16 | Game Theory | 4 |
| Computer Science | 15 | Gamification | 4 |
| Demographics | 15 | Internet Protocols | 4 |
| Economics | 15 | Journalism | 4 |
| Health | 15 | Management | 4 |
| Sentiment Analysis | 15 | Natural Language Processing | 4 |
| Education | 14 | Open Access | 4 |
| Hypertext | 14 | Programming | 4 |
| Marketing | 14 | Software Engineering | 4 |
| Narrative | 14 | Biology | 3 |
| Online Identity | 14 | Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| Web History | 14 | Geographic Information Systems GIS | 3 |
| Web Languages | 14 | Real-time Data | 3 |
| Law | 13 | Religion | 3 |
Citing the Lexicon
If you wish to use the Lexicon in your own work, a suggested citation format is as follows:
Coskun, E.A. Web Science Lexicon. University of Southampton, 2018. URL: https://webscience-lexicon.southampton.ac.uk
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