The evolution of the Web and implications for eResearch.

Journal article

The hypertext visionaries foresaw the potential of richly interlinked global information systems for advancing human knowledge. The Web provided the infrastructure to enable those ideas to become a reality, and it quickly became a platform for collaborative research and data sharing. As the Web has evolved, new ways of using it for eResearch have emerged, such as the social networking facilities enabled by Web 2.0 technologies. The next generation of the Web-the so-called Semantic Web--is now...

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Authors: Hall, W; De Roure, D; Shadbolt, N

• Journal: Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
• Volume: 367
• Issue: 1890
• Pages: 991-1001
• Publication date: 2009-03-01
• DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0252
• EISSN: 1471-2962
• ISSN: 1364-503X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Software; Internet; Information Storage and Retrieval; Research; User-Computer Interface; Information Dissemination