Category Archives: Curriculum

Post 3a: Web technologies – Forerunners and Past

Posted on August 11, 2011 by katylucyjordan

Forerunners Paul Otlet (born 1868; died 1944) is considered to be one of the ‘fathers’ of Information Science. Prompted by the belief that books were an inefficient mode of information storage, Otlet developed his idea for ‘the creation of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Curriculum | Tagged Bush, DARPA, Encyclopedia, Engelbart, Forerunners, FTP, GOPHER, History, Hypermedia, Hypertext, Information Science, Information systems, Internet, IP, Memex, Microfilm, Monographic Principle, Nelson, NLS, Otlet, TCP, W3C, WAIS, Web technologies, Wells, World Brain, World wide web, Xanadu | Leave a comment

Post 6: The Web and The Arts

Posted on April 25, 2011 by katylucyjordan

(topic currently still in development) Additional topic post: This topic didn’t come out strongly from the Web Science curriculum analysis, but it seems to be coming up with increasing frequency in my emails/browsing/twitter, so I think it deserves its own … Continue reading →

Posted in Curriculum | Tagged Arts, Culture, Music | Leave a comment

Post 5c: The web and society – Law and governance

Posted on February 14, 2011 by katylucyjordan

Note: This post is a work-in-progress! It’s currently more of a notes page and will be added to and rewritten over time. Watch this space! Legal aspects – Privacy – Copyright – Intellectual property Government – Policy and technology – … Continue reading →

Posted in Curriculum | Tagged Copyright, Digital inclusion, e-Governance, Government, Intellectual property, Law, Policy, Privacy, Public policy, The web and society | Leave a comment

Post 5b: The web and society – Economics and business

Posted on February 7, 2011 by katylucyjordan

Note: This post is a work-in-progress! It’s currently more of a notes page and will be added to and rewritten over time. Watch this space! Business – Commercial structures and economics – Business models on the web – Project management … Continue reading →

Posted in Curriculum | Tagged Business, Business models, Business strategy, Commercial structures, Commons, Developing world, E-commerce, Economics, Economics of security, Local development, Macroeconomic issues, Policy, Project management, Social welfare, The web and society, W3F, Web economics | Leave a comment

Post 5a: The web and society – Social structures and processes

Posted on January 28, 2011 by katylucyjordan

Note: This post is a work-in-progress! It’s currently more of a notes page and will be added to and rewritten over time. Watch this space! Co-evolution of web and society Culture and technology Globalisation Cyber journalism Social capital and power … Continue reading →

Posted in Curriculum | Tagged Co-evolution, Collective intelligence, Culture, Cyber journalism, Globalisation, Identity, Power inequality, Social capital, Social network analysis, Systems theory, The web and society, Web 2.0 | Leave a comment

Post 4c: Analysing the web – Interdisciplinarity

Posted on January 21, 2011 by katylucyjordan

Note: This post is a work-in-progress! It’s currently more of a notes page and will be added to and rewritten over time. Watch this space! (this topic particularly needs a lot of work! but I think it’s important to tackle … Continue reading →

Posted in Curriculum | Tagged Analysing the web, Interdisciplinarity, Multidisciplinarity | Leave a comment

Post 4b: Analysing the web – Social Science approaches

Posted on January 14, 2011 by katylucyjordan

Note: This post is a work-in-progress! It’s currently more of a notes page and will be added to and rewritten over time. Watch this space! (starting point – list of topics needs a lot of development!) Qualitative methods – Case … Continue reading →

Posted in Curriculum | Tagged Actor-network theory, Analysing the web, Case studies, Data analysis, Online ethnography, Qualitative methods, Surveys | Leave a comment

Post 4a: Analysing the web – Mathematical approaches

Posted on January 7, 2011 by katylucyjordan

Note: This post is a work-in-progress! It’s currently more of a notes page and will be added to and rewritten over time. Watch this space! Graph theory – Graph topology – Random graphs – Small worlds – Scale-free graphs – … Continue reading →

Posted in Curriculum | Tagged Analysing the web, Combinatorics, Game theory, Graph theory, Graph topology, Network inference, Network sampling, Networks, Power law, Probability statistics, Random graphs, Regression analysis, Scale-free graphs, Small worlds, Social network analysis, Statistics, Web mining | Leave a comment

Post 3c: Web technologies – Future

Posted on December 28, 2010 by katylucyjordan

Note: This post is a work-in-progress! It’s currently more of a notes page and will be added to and rewritten over time. Watch this space! Mobile Web Technologies ‘Internet of Things’ RFIDs – ‘internet of things’ Cloud Computing Cloud computing … Continue reading →

Posted in Curriculum | Tagged Cloud computing, FOAF, Internet of things, Linked data, Mobile web technologies, Ontology, RFIDs, Semantic processing, Semantic web, Semantic web languages, Web technologies | Leave a comment

Post 3b: Web technologies – Present

Posted on December 21, 2010 by katylucyjordan

Note: This post is a work-in-progress! It’s currently more of a notes page and will be added to and rewritten over time. Watch this space! A subtitle to this post could be ‘how does the web work? what does it … Continue reading →

Posted in Curriculum | Tagged AJAX, Community inclusion, Decentralisation, DOM, Dublin Core, Google, Governance, Harvest, HTML, HTTP, Inquirus, Java servlets, Javascript, Link analysis, Metadata, Ontologies, Openness, Page rank, PHP, RDF, RDF-SCHEMA, Search algorithms, Search engines, SMIL, Standards, The web graph, Universality, URI, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web architecture, Web information retrieval, Web technologies, XLink, XML, XSL, XSLT | Leave a comment