Epidemiology and the World Wide Web: Is There a 'Net Benefit?

Is Anybody Out There? (Museums, Audiences and the World Wide Web)

The World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a very large distributed digital information space. From its origins in 1991 as an organization-wide collaborative environment at CERN for sharing research documents in nuclear physics, the Web has grown to encompass diverse information resources: personal home pages; online digital libraries; virtual museums; product and service catalogs; government information for public...

The World Wide Web

This article provides a high-level overview of the World Wide Web in the context of a wide range of other Internet information access and delivery services. This overview will include client-side, server-side and “user-side” perspectives. Underlying Web technologies as well as current technology extensions to the Web will also be covered. Social implications of Web technology will also be addre...

The World Wide Web

Introduction The World Wide Web (hereafter simply referred to as the Web) is a large-scale digital compendium of information that covers practically every sphere of human interest and endeavour. For this reason it should come as no surprise that the Web has been an important focus of attention for the epistemological community. To date, search engines (Heintz, 2006; Miller & Record, 2013; Simps...

The Web-Wide World

The great project of the World Wide Web has succeeded a large portion of the world’s information is now instantly accessible through open protocols and open presentation formats. The Web is as Sir Tim Berners-Lee envisioned it, a vast resource of interconnected knowledge. Yet that resource exists in a universe of its own. Meanwhile the real world has become crowded with connected devices, none ...