2017-07-06: Web Science 2017 Trip Report
I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to present Yasmin AlNoamany 's work at Web Science 2017 . Dr. Nelson offers an excellent class on Web Science , but it has been years since I had taken it and I still was uncertain about the current state of the art. Web Science 2017 took place in Troy, a small city in upstate New York that is home to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) . The RPI team had organized an excellent conference focused on a variety of Web Science topics, including cyber bullying, taxonomies, social media, and ethics. Keynote Speakers Day One The opening keynote by Steffen Staab from the Institute for Web Science and Technologies (WeST) was entitled "The Web We Want". He discussed how we need to determine what values we want to meet before deciding on the web we want. Dr. Staab defined three key values: accessibility for the disabled, freedom from harassment, and a useful semantic web. Staab detailed the MAMEM project wh...