Linking the World's Information/ Essays on Tim Berners-Lee's Invention of the World Wide Web Oshani Seneviratne, James Hendler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seneviratne, Oshani, editor.

Series:

ACM books - Collection 3 ; #52.

ACM books, 2374-6777 ; #52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linking the World's Information(Computer Science).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 258pages) LuaTEX

Edition:

First Edition

Place of Publication:

[New York, NY, USA] : Association for Computing Machinery; [2023].

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Contents:

Foreword

Skunkworks and Generality

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I INTRODUCTION

1 Background and Early life

1.1 London Childhood

1.2 Physics by Day, Computer Science by Night

1.3 Shrinking Technology

1.4 Weaving the Web

1.5 Building Consensus

1.6 First Among Equals

1.7 Inclusive and Decentralized

2 Utopia to Dystopia and Back Again?

2.1 Welcome by the Event Host, Prof. Dr. Hans Akkermans

2.2 The Lecture by Tim Berners-Lee

2.3 History: Designing the WWW

2.4 Defending the WWW

2.5 The Utopian Promise Blooms

2.6 Dystopia Emerged

2.7 Re-decentralizing the Web

2.8 Acknowledgements

2.9 Questions and Answers

PART II WEAVING THE WEB

3 The World-Wide Web

3.1 What Does W3 Define?

3.2 Universal Resource Identifiers

3.3 Hypertext Transfer Protocol

3.4 Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

3.5 W3 and Other Systems

3.6 Recent W3 Developments

3.7 The Future

3.8 Conclusion

Appendix. Getting started

About the Authors

Glossary and Further Reading

4 Web Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Web

4.1 What Is It?

4.2 Beneath the Web Graph

4.3 From Power Laws to People

4.4 The Web of Data

4.5 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

5 Building for Search Engines: Following REST

Note from the editors

A Programmable Web: An Unfinished Work Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology

PART III MAKING THE WEB MEANINGFUL

6 The Semantic Web: A New Form of Web Content that is Meaningful to Computers will Unleash a Revolution of New Possibilities

6.1 Expressing Meaning

6.2 Knowledge Representation

6.3 Ontologies

6.4 Agents

6.5 Evolution of Knowledge

7 The Impact of the Web on Information Retrieval

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Searching the Web

7.3 Making Sense of the Web

7.4 Conclusions

8 Linked Data - The Story So Far

8.1 Introduction

8.2 What is Linked Data?

8.3 The Linking Open Data Project

8.4 Publishing Linked Data on the Web

8.5 Linked Data Applications

8.6 Related Developments (in Research and Practice)

8.7 Research Challenges

8.8 Conclusion

References

Bios

9 Linking the World's Data

9.1 Data Before the Web

9.2 A Web of Data

9.3 Linked Data

9.4 Success, Failure, or the New Normal?

PART IV UNDERSTANDING AND PROTECTING THE WEB'S MISSION

10 The World Wide Web Consortium

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Origins and Consensus

10.3 Convening a Global Community

10.4 W3C Members Drive the Consortium; the Staff Steers

10.5 The Importance of Developers

10.6 Ensuring the Web Remains Royalty-Free

10.7 Making the Web Accessible

10.8 Conclusion

11 The Open Data Revolution

11.1 Introduction

11.2 The UK Open Data Project

11.3 Freeing the Data

11.4 A Race to the Top

11.5 Principals, Protocols, and Process

11.6 Open Data Politics

11.7 Institutional Engineering

11.8 Open Data versus Personal Data

11.9 The Future

12 A Web for Everyone

PART V WEAVING THE WEB FOR THE FUTURE

13 Decentralization: The Future of Online Social Networking

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Motivation

13.3 Decentralized Online Social Networking

13.4 A Possible User Interface to Decentralized Social Networking

13.5 Conclusions

Acknowledgements

14 Tim Berners-Lee's Research at the Decentralized Information Group at MIT

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Data Modeling and Visualization

14.3 Web and Policy

14.4 Ongoing Work

14.5 Conclusion

15 Re-decentralizing the Web, For Good This Time

15.1 Power to the People

15.2 A Short History of (De-)Centralization and the Web

15.3 Taking Back Control of our Data

15.4 Independent Innovation in Separate Data and Service Spaces

15.5 The Solid Project

15.6 A Decentralized Web for All

16 What the World Needs to Keep Learning from Tim Berners-Lee's Creation of the Web

16.1 Lessons & Challenges

16.2 Responding to Challenges

16.3 Conclusion

17 Contributors' Biographies

Editors

Foreword Authors

Chapter Authors

Index

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3591366

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