Sw-MetaPortal-ProjectParadigm wrote:
Kinglsey,
I would very much like to know what it will take to start up just such
a federation.
There are technical standards, legal issues of copyright and numerous
others to explore.
Federation post Web 2.0 will occur in the same fashion centralization
occurred during the Web 1.0 and 2.0 stages of Web evolution i.e.,
services / solutions deployment models.
If we take "Web 2.0" as a example, the model is inherently central
courtesy of a specific application of the SaaS (Software as a Service)
deployment model. Google, Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, and the litany of
others (from Web 1.0 to 2.0) all fit my characterization in this regard.
Federation will resurface by the emergence of personalized variations of
the SaaS deployment model courtesy of cloud computing platform
offerings like
Amazon EC2 (and others). We will end up with Personal Portals that
expose Metadata in RDF based Linked Data form (pun intended :-) ),
which is something that our OpenLink Data Spaces platform (ODS) [1] has
long facilitated (i.e., all your Web 2.0 silos are hooked into a virtual
data space that exposes the data from those enclaves as RDF based Linked
Data).
How do we go about designing a framework for the federation, i.e. a
defining framework document and the requirements for each
participating space?
See how we've done it via the ODS framework and programmers guide [2][3].
And to use analogies from the community of self-autonomous entities,
will all spaces be equal like e.g. nations or will we have
city-states, capitol districts, autonomous territories, provinces and
the likes to identify the interrelatedness and dependency structure of
the spaces.
All of the above, in a nutshell.
A federation presupposes common ideals, principles, standards, and
intentions governed by a declaring, defining document and a
constituting, instituting document.
Well we are a loose-ish federation of social beings in our human
meta-space, we just haven't translated that completely to cyberspace.
I know of at least three spaces myself would like to join such a
federation as soon as possible!
I think all the silo-ed members of social-networks and other Web 2.0
solutions will make this happen in due course. The opportunity cost of
futile resistance will force the silo owners to play ball (it always
does eventually).
We have all the essential building blocks in place, who will step to
the fore to create and form part of a council of founding fathers for
just such an endeavor?
"You" [4] :-)
The exciting part of this process is that both consumers groups of
information and producers/providers of information represented in such
a space of linked data could form part of the federation.
By doing so you will create a much better feedback loop about what
users would actually appreciate in functionality first, obviously
building on the standards created by W3C et alii.
An exciting idea this federation!
Yes.
Links:
1. http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/wiki/main/Main/Ods
2.
http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/ODSProgrammersGuide
3.
http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtuosoOdsUbiquityTutorials
4. http://tinyurl.com/6lwfqj
Kingsley
Milton Ponson
GSM: +297 747 8280
Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation
PO Box 1154, Oranjestad
Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
www.rainbowwarriors.net
Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for
sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide
www.projectparadigm.info
NGO-Opensource: Creating ICT tools for NGOs worldwide for Project Paradigm
www.ngo-opensource.org
MetaPortal: providing online access to web sites and repositories of
data and information for sustainable development
www.metaportal.info
SemanticWebSoftware, part of NGO-Opensource to enable SW technologies
in the Metaportal project
www.semanticwebsoftware.org
--- On *Sun, 12/7/08, Kingsley Idehen /<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
From: Kingsley Idehen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The next Internet giant: linking open data, providing
open access to repositories
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: "semantic-web" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "public-lod"
<[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 7:14 PM
Sw-MetaPortal-ProjectParadigm wrote:
> The next Internet giant company will be linking open data and providing
open access to repositories, in the process seamlessly combining both paid
for
subscriptions, Creative Commons or similar license based or open source
software
schemes.
>
> Revenues will be generated among other things from online advertising
streams currently not utilized by Google or Yahoo!
>
> In the big scheme of things this company will redefine the concept of
internet search to provide access to deep(er) web levels of data and
information
for which users will be willing to pay an annual flat fee subscription.
>
> Sound improbable? Non-profit organizations dedicated to providing global
open access will soon start exploring just such
business schemes to determine if
it is feasible to fund and maintain the server farms, hard and software to
do
just that.
>
Milton,
Not improbable, that's what coming :-)
The only tweak of you statement would be this: there will be a federation of
linked data spaces rather than a single behemoth :-)
Kingsley
>
> Milton Ponson
> GSM: +297 747 8280
> Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation
> PO Box 1154, Oranjestad
> Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
> www.rainbowwarriors.net
> Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for
sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide
> www.projectparadigm.info
> NGO-Opensource: Creating ICT tools for NGOs worldwide for Project Paradigm
> www.ngo-opensource.org
> MetaPortal: providing online access to web sites and repositories of data
and information for sustainable development
>
www.metaportal.info
> SemanticWebSoftware, part of NGO-Opensource to enable SW technologies in
the Metaportal project
> www.semanticwebsoftware.org
>
>
--
Regards,
Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
--
Regards,
Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
President & CEO
OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
