RESEARCH PRIORITIES FOR THE WORLD-WIDE WEB

Table of Contents

Executive Summary - Jim Foley

1. Introduction - Jim Foley

2. Recommendation 1: Establish NSF WWW Office
Recommendation 2: Supplement PI Research in WWW Context
Recommendation 3: Include WWW Impact in Peer Review Criteria
Recommendation 4: Make WWW Standard for NSF Information Dissemination
Recommendation 5: Make NSF/IRIS Projects Web Accessible
Recommendation 6: Develop Software Repository Tools
Recommendation 7: Establish Software Repository
Recommendation 8: Establish SBIR Program
Recommendation 9: Integrate Research in Cognate Fields 3. Short Term Recommendations - Edward A. Fox & Chris Connolly

4. Recommendation for Collaboration Tools - John M. Carroll & Chris Connolly Research Agenda Recommendations

5.1 Indexing, Semantics & Representation - Robert C. Berwick & Edward A. Fox

5.2 Architecture & Performance - Edward A. Fox & Tomasz Imielinski 5.3 Resource Discovery - Edward A. Fox, V. S. Subrahmanian & John M. Carroll 5.4 Visualization - Jim Foley & Chris Connolly 5.5 Authoring Tools - Jim Foley & Tomasz Imielinski 5.6 Usability Evaluation - John M. Carroll 5.7 Learning & Self Organization - Tomasz Imielinski & Robert C. Berwick Appendix A - Participants

Appendix B - URLs

Appendix C - Workshop Call

Appendix D - Internal Position Papers

Appendix E - External Position Papers