There is a growing awareness that we need richer descriptions of data and devices in the Internet of Things (IoT). This short presentation gives a high-level view of what is being done in terms of technologies for semantic modelling of sensor networks, and initiatives on standardization in this area.

When the web was born, it was all about contents. "Content is king" was a popular slogan. And this did push the web and its supporting technology to be the main way of delivering contents and getting access to it in the networked society. In recent years we are talking more and more about web applications. While web content is mainly about the information delivered across the net, web applications is about tasks and processing that the web can offer to the user. We saw applications on the servers, now we see them on the clients. So what does this mean for the web, and what does it mean for providers that offer their added-value over the web? Is everything just enriched contents? Or is everything information-rich applications? How do we understand what the web will be in some years time? The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is developing standardised technologies that will serve both the information-centric web and the application-centric web. This presentation explores the space of requirements and needs, and how a toolbox of technologies can support both views of the web, in a harmonious way.

Exploring current and future technologies of the Open Web Platform.

Public money is being spent by various national archives to store their governments' online content for the long term, but are they following the best approach?

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) was founded in 1994 with vision of “One Web” open to all. The Web is changing the world, and it will continue to change commerce, governance, leisure, education, relationships etc. This presentation will be on W3C's Open Web Platform (a platform for innovation, consolidation and cost efficiencies entirely based on royalty free open standards) and will invite interested parties to participate in this activity.