A Web-Based Resource Model for eScience: Object Reuse & Exchange

Despite the high “hype to reality” ratio, Web 2.0 [37] represents a fundamental change in the Web. Originally conceived as a technology for linking together documents [8], the Web has morphed into a rich network of distributed services, data, and semantic relationships, glued together via social participation [35]. Social applications such as blogs and wikis and social sites such as facebook and Flickr demonstrate how the Web has evolved into a socio‐technical network [9], a context where object centered sociality [16] takes place and is subsequently recorded.