Open W.A.R(Web Applications for/and Research)

Stefan Negru www.blankdots.com

Hello! I’m Stefan and I’m a researcher, among other things.

Open Research Perspective

How would you describe your work…

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein

The Web as an innovation and sharing platform for research.

btw: Happy 25th birthday WWW - www.webat25.org

The Web is trendy and has all the cool toys.

btw: Google started as a research project.

The Web as a publishing platform.

btw: Read more about the Open Access initiative - www.open-access.net

Sharing ideas and collaborating with other passionate people.

Being novel with Web Technologies…• Web Specifications – ambiguous and in some cases vague –

owl:Nothing subclassOf owl:Thing • (fresh) Web Technologies are somewhat unstable – I'm looking at

you IndexedDB/FileAPI/WebRTC etc. • Maintaining Web applications a constant challenge • Open Web API’s – sort of (when they’re working) • Available on all platforms – let’s just say that mobile is still a

“special” something

… YES we can. (& hopefully there is a internet

connection to run the demo)

available at - www.purl.org/vowl/

Be passionate Experiment more Don’t fear failure Keep an open mind

Thank you!Stefan Negru

www.blankdots.com @blankdots