Linking the world's information : essays on Tim Berners-Lee's invention of the World Wide Web / edited by Oshani Seneviratne and James Hendler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seneviratne, Oshani, editor.

Hendler, James, editor.

Series:

ACM Bks.

ACM Bks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International cooperation.

Commerce--International cooperation.

Commerce.

Technological innovations--International cooperation.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Association for Computing Machinery, 2020.

Summary:

This book, part of the ACM Books series, explores various aspects of computer science and its impact on society. It includes detailed discussions on geospatial data science, logic and computational complexity, and the evolution of the World Wide Web. The book aims to serve as a comprehensive resource for computer science professionals and enthusiasts, offering insights into the development of the web, linked data technologies, and the role of open data. It also delves into the historical and technical aspects of computing, presenting works of key figures in the field. This publication is designed for an audience interested in both the technical and societal implications of computing advancements. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

Linking the World's Information

Contents

Foreword

Skunkworks and Generality

Preface

Acknowledgments

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

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

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

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

Further Information:

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?

8.2.1 The Linked Data Technology Stack

8.3 The Linking Open Data Project

8.4 Publishing Linked Data on the Web

8.4.1 Choosing URIs and RDF Vocabularies

8.4.2 Link Generation

8.4.3 Metadata

8.4.4 Publishing Tools

8.5 Linked Data Applications

8.5.1 Linked Data Browsers

8.5.2 Linked Data Search Engines and Indexes

8.5.2.1 Human-oriented Search Engines

8.5.2.2 Application-oriented Indexes

8.5.3 Domain-specific Applications

8.5.3.1 Revyu

8.5.3.2 DBpedia Mobile

8.5.3.3 Talis Aspire

8.5.3.4 BBC Programmes and BBC Music

8.5.3.5 DERI Pipes

8.6 Related Developments (in Research and Practice)

8.6.1 Microformats

8.6.2 Web APIs

8.6.3 Dataspaces

8.6.4 Semantic Web

8.7 Research Challenges

8.7.1 User Interfaces and Interaction Paradigms

8.7.2 Application Architectures

8.7.3 Schema Mapping and Data Fusion

8.7.4 Link Maintenance

8.7.5 Licensing

8.7.6 Trust, Quality and Relevance

8.7.7 Privacy

8.8 Conclusion

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?

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

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

13.3.1 Personal Wall

13.3.2 Photos

13.3.3 News feed

13.4 A Possible User Interface to Decentralized Social Networking

13.5 Conclusions

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

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Data Modeling and Visualization

14.2.1 Notation3 (N3)

14.2.2 N3Logic

14.2.3 Tabulator

14.3 Web and Policy

14.3.1 Policy Aware Web

14.3.2 Information Accountability

14.3.2.1 Transparent and Accountable Datamining Initiative

14.3.3 HyperText Transfer Protocol with Accountability

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

15.2.1 Decentralization as the Unspoken Assumption

15.2.2 The Race for our Desktop

15.2.3 The Race for our Searches

15.2.4 The Race for our Personal Data and Identity

15.3 Taking Back Control of our Data

15.4 Independent Innovation in Separate Data and Service Spaces

15.5 The Solid Project

15.5.1 Personal Data Linking and Integration

15.5.2 Read-Write Web

15.5.3 Potential for Disruption

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 &amp

Challenges

16.1.1 Simplicity

Threats to Design Simplicity

16.1.2 Leadership.

Challenges to Community-based Leadership Web Technology Development

16.1.3 Have Faith in People

16.2 Responding to Challenges

16.3 Conclusion

Contributors' Biographies

Editors

Foreword Authors

Chapter Authors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9798400707957

OCLC:

1419872499