Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

A social card generated by Facebook for my previous blog post. Rich links, snippet , social snippet, social media card , Twitter card , embedded representation, rich object , social card . These visualizations of web objects now pervade our existence on and off of the Web. The concept has been used to render web documents as results in academic research projects, like in Omar Alonso's " What's Happening and What Happened: Searching the Social Web ". oEmbed is a standard for producing rich embedded representations of web objects for a variety of consuming services. Google experiments with using richer objects in their search results , even including images  and other content from pages. Facebook , Twitter , Tumblr , Storify , and other tools use these cards. They have become so ubiquitous that services that do not produce these cards, like Google Hangouts , seem antiquated. These cards also no longer just sit within the confines of the web browser, being used

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to present Yasmin AlNoamany 's work at Web Science 2017 . Dr. Nelson offers an excellent class on Web Science , but it has been years since I had taken it and I still was uncertain about the current state of the art. Web Science 2017 took place in Troy, a small city in upstate New York that is home to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) . The RPI team had organized an excellent conference focused on a variety of Web Science topics, including cyber bullying, taxonomies, social media, and ethics. Keynote Speakers Day One The opening keynote by Steffen Staab from the Institute for Web Science and Technologies (WeST) was entitled "The Web We Want". He discussed how we need to determine what values we want to meet before deciding on the web we want. Dr. Staab defined three key values: accessibility for the disabled, freedom from harassment, and a useful semantic web. Staab detailed the MAMEM project wh