The Web Observatory: A Middle Layer for Broad Data
Thanassis Tiropanis, Wendy Hall, James Hendler, Christian de Larrinaga · Big Data · 2014
The Web Observatory project is a global effort that is being led by the Web Science Trust, its network of WSTnet laboratories, and the wider Web Science community. The goal of this project is to create a global distributed infrastructure that will foster communities exchanging and using each other's web-related datasets as well as sharing analytic applications for research and business web applications.3 It will provide the means to observe the digital planet, explore its processes, and understand their impact on different sectors of human activity.