About us

Our work examines the Web and the platforms it facilitates, in order to understand its technical, economic and societal impact.

We develop innovative software tools and contribute to technical standards that enhance the future Web architecture.

Expertise

WAIS brings together expertise in:

data science
human accessibility of information
semantic web-linked and open data
hypertext communication and narratives
social networks
educational systems
social machines and crowdsourcing
the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems
information provenance
open access, open science and open systems

Contributions

We are part of several global education, research, and enterprise networks. We engage with the wider community to address some of the greatest economic and societal challenges facing the World Wide Web today. These include the:

Web Science Trust Network of Laboratories, which brings together research labs around the world who specialize in web science.
Open Data Institute (ODI) is a non-profit company funded by Technology Strategy Board. Its goal is to release the potential of open data on both economical and social levels, and enable open data to generate demands, create opportunitities for new types of businesses.
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops and distributes royal-free standards related to World Wide Web.
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) is a non-profit orgainisation to foster collaboration within research communities in Europe and increase the communications between the research and industrial sectors.

Contact us

Get in touch. We're happy to answer your questions.

wais@ecs.soton.ac.uk
+44 (0)23 8059 3047