Web 3.0

The Internet is a moving target, constantly changing and evolving. As I contemplate its likely trajectory over the next 10 years, I hope whatever form it takes, it continues to exhibit the original values we established in its earliest years. These include the principles of ethics, trust, openness, free access, and shared content. However, I do fear and worry that we are already seeing trends toward certain governments controlling Internet access, conflicts between privacy and security, content and pricing control by a few large players, and more.

DR. LEONARD KLEINROCK, 18/04/2014

Even before the interactive "Web 2.0" was established with its social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, ways had been conceived of making semantic links, in other words meaningful connections, visible in a "Web 3.0". But despite some promising attempts, fifteen years later the "Semantic Web" is still waiting for a breakthrough. The Alumniportal talks about this to Daniel Pfirrmann.

Andreas Vierecke, 07/05/2014

As the Internet of Things expands its reach, more and more of the everyday objects that we surround ourselves with are becoming “smart.” It’s already happening with our phones, our microwaves, our refrigerators, our lighting systems — entire houses are gaining an element of artificial intelligence, allowing us to communicate with objects via language. In most cases, those communications are as basic as possible, i.e. “Dim lights” or “Call Susan.” But with technologists and linguists putting their mental muscle to the test, we will soon find ourselves immersed in an array of objects, tools, and machine-based services that we will be able to converse with using natural language.

AstraZeneca Semantic Models expert Kerstin Forsberg gives insight into semantic web standards and what they can do for clinical research.

In a June 2010 Semantic Web Meetup in San Diego, Peter Mika of Yahoo!’s research division gave a presentation entitled, “The future face of Search is Semantic for Facebook, Google and Yahoo!

Someday you will be able to ask your browser or smart phone open questions like "Where should I take my wife for a good movie and dinner?" Your browser would consult its intelligence of what you and she like and dislike, take into account your current location, and then suggest the right movies and restaurants. If you are the first to deliver this, your startup might be the next Google!

The Internet of Things is coming, but it needs a semantic backbone to flourish. With some 25 billion devices expected to be connected to the Internet by 2015 and 50 billion by 2020, providing interoperability among the things on the IoT “is one of the most fundamental requirements to support object addressing, tracking, and discovery as well as information representation, storage, and exchange.”

Les 4 grands révolutions coperniciennes du web :

1. La dérive des continents documentaires à l'envers (constitution progressive d'une Pangée d'indexabilité) - 2. le capitalisme linguistique (Frédéric Kaplan) - 3. le changement d'axe de rotation du web...

5th Web and philosophy conference@ESCWC 2015
May 31st 2015, Portoroz, Slovenia

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The relationship between the Web and philosophy is now at a crucial turning point. While a group of philosophers and philosophically-influenced scholars are increasingly interested in the Web, we are facing unprecedented challenges around its future that requires concerted efforts between researcher and disciplines to be properly addressed.

It's hard to believe that just 25 years ago the idea of linking together databases so people could access information easily was limited to research universities and prescient sci-fi writers.

With the advent of the worldwide web and HTML, databases came to the masses in the form of pages. Pages could be made up of images, text, video and even links with web pages linking to other web pages. We no longer needed a librarian to retrieve facts nor the skillset of a researcher to tap into bodies of knowledge.

Jon Bakke, 13/05/2014

The focus on the semantic web was fun, but ultimately missed the big picture, which is people care not about knowledge graphs but about the people and current events happening in their social graphs.

In continuing the search for open data one cannot possibly overlook the W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium).  In my opinion the W3C has had more impact on our information technology lives over the past 18+ years than any other open standards or open source entity. 

[...] Specific to open data, W3C continues to play a central, albeit heretofore relatively quiet, role; that quietude will soon change.  Despite the hype around Apache Hadoop and related open source “big data” projects, if one considers the term “big data” from a wider context, all the way out to what I like to call the Data Economy, then W3C plays a more strategic role than Hadoop and its many cousins.  Let’s explore further.

An introduction to SemanticWeb and Linked Dataor how to link data andschemas on the weba W3C tutorial byFabien Gandon, http://fabien.info, @fabien_gandonIvan He

You’ve likely used terms on search engines that you thought should produce the information you’re looking for, only to be disappointed that the sites that show up couldn’t be farther from what you’re looking for.

Imagine a world where the documents you retrieve from web sites have no links to any other document in any site. In terms of data on the Web today, this is where we are. Data on different sites are like silos and are not linked.

The adoption of Semantic Web technologies implies new challenges for user interaction beyond those already posed by Web technologies and interactive systems in general. HSWI workshop aims to explore and evaluate good practices in interface design, and ultimately feed into possible recommendations for standardizing and consolidating knowledge and good practices into a set of guidelines for semantic web developers, to ensure the usability and reasonably functional user experiences of the next generation of Semantic Web applications.