Future of WWW and Future of Your Business

Tim Berners-Lee

Warsaw,Poland, 7 October 2010

MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
World Wide Web Foundation

(These slides:
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/1007-warsaw-tbl/ )

This talk

  1. Remember back before the Web?
  2. The fundamental change: Universality
  3. Linked Data
  4. Read-write Linked Data
  5. The other 80%

Pre-Web

now difficult to explain what it was like!

CERN from the air
The ATLAS detector - a big project

Pre-web at CERN

Need to bridge

> ENQUIRE
Enquire V 1.1

Hello!
Opening file (PSK-PCP)VAC-V1:ENQR...

PSB Vacuum Control System                    (concept)  <   O>
--- ------ ------- ------

 [ 1] described-by: Enquiry System
      An experimental system for which this is a test.

 [ 2] includes: Vacuum History System
      Records and displays slow changes in pressure.

 [ 3] includes: Vacuum equipment modules
      Perform all the hardware interface

 [ 4] includes: Control and status applications programs
      Provide operator interaction from the consoles.

 [ 5] described-by: Controle du System a Vide du Booster 11-2-80
      Operational specification of the software

 [ 6] includes: PSB Pump Surveillance System         PCP 228
      Allows rapid monitoring of pressure changes

[number      ]

Solution

1989

1989: March: Web memo

Circles and arrows again...

Circles and arrows diagram

1990: WWW design

The original architecture diagram

Universality of the Web

Technology which is independent of:

Access for Anybody

mobile Christmas 2004

Layers: Separate Markets

IP connectivity, software, and content

Layers: The IP Hourglass

The IP Hourglass

Image: J Zittrain

1991-4: Paradigm shift

Increase of 10x every year

1994: World Wide Web Consortium

good + fair + fast

Leading the web to its full potential

2008: Linked Data

Flower with roots in data
Flourishing with Linked Data Bus
LOD cloud: dbpedia.org seed
LOD cloud: 18 datasets
LOD cloud: 24 datasets
LOD cloud: 35 datasets
LOD cloud: ~45 datasets
LOD cloud: Adding Life Sci

Read-only Linked Open Data Cloud 2010

203 datasets

richard.cyganiak.de 2010 Data: CKAN

LOD cloud: 2010 - 203 datasets

Business opportunities from Linked Open Data

2009: Raw Data Now

Tue 17:59Blog "Pedalling some raw data"Paul Clarke, direct.gov.uk
Wed 12:57Zipped CSV filePaul Battley
Wed 13:26KML fileTom Taylor
Wed 21:51Online MapJulian Burgess, timesonline

2009 March 10-11


(Geeks see: (geo_helper.py))

red dots over london

2010 Open Government Data

Open Government Licence

3. Read-Write Data

Social Network Silos

Silos - people trying to communicate despite them

Social Network Silos - 2

closed silos

Breaking the silos

interconnected social network data

Building Apps

Clients access data though ACL systems - (SVG diagram)

Separation of Apps from Data: Business opportunities

Recap: Universality of the Web

Technology which is independent of:

Access for anyone

Recap: Universality of the Web

Technology which is independent of:

Access for anyone everyone

Map shows develping countries do not have Net access.

The Other 80%

2009: World Wide Web Foundation

webfoundation home page

Thank you

Historical Roadmap

This talk: http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/1007-warsaw-tbl/

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