Thread · 11 tweets · 16 Jul 2017

I’ve been looking at «Web Science», because it should match a lot of my interests. It’s proving hard to find a usable entry point.

This seems to be the journal with the most content (not much). It published from 2011 to 2014. inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcod…

There is also webscience-journal.net with an insane throughput of four articles per year since 2015.

There’s a repository that collects everything. Well, everything between 2009 and 2011: journal.webscience.org

Perhaps the most interesting is webscience.org/web-science-pu…. For some reason though, the content uses a weird, hard-to-use player of some kind.

The most useful content seems to be iw3c2.org/conferences/. At least there’s volume to pick from there. That might be the only good bit.

It’s all PDFs at URLs that are almost guaranteed to change, though. Accessibility a joke. Web Science doesn’t seem great at using the Web :(

I think Web Science promises to be both interesting and useful (if you’ve used that «Google» thing, you agree at least with the latter).

So the questions are: • Have I missed something? • Why is the field in such apparent disarray? • How do we fix it? [end]

Ah, @scottbw correctly points out that I forgot to include @oiioxford. It’s true they do lots of great stuff, see oii.ox.ac.uk/research/publi….

In the same vein it’s well worth mentioning @OxfordeResearch. oerc.ox.ac.uk/research