Let's build a World Wide Semantic Web !
Christophe Guret (@cgueret)Victor de Boer (@victordeboer)Stefan
Schlobach& the WorldWideSemanticWeb community
Workshop Making it matterLondon May 16
http://worldwidesemanticweb.org/
Data sharing is universal but ...
Everywhere people need to share data about market prices,
health, education, governance,
Not everyone has access to the same means
Semantic Web could help
The technology is good forExpressing data in context
Decentralised authoring
Reasoning with different world conceptualisations
Multi-facetted and multi-lingual models
But it is designed by a privileged few thatFocus on computer
literate users
Assume cloud-hosted servers are available
Consider one world view for everyone
One solution: Downscale !
Not only look at scaling things up but keep an eye on local
needs and local specificities
WWSW = community + projects
(also teaching and training activities)
SB Consulting(SBC4D)
SemanticXO
Entity Registry System(ERS)
Data + 3 angles
We are primarly concerned with DataStructured, semantically
riched and linked
Locally relevant and locally produced
Look at improving access to data around three thematic
angles:Infrastructures
Relevancy
Interfaces
Infrastructure
We need to focus on accessible infrastructuresLimited
electricity
Off-line or locally connected in Intranets
Small hardware (PlugPC, RaspberryPi, )
Things done in relation to OLPCSemanticXO : make every XO LOD
ready
ERS : publish and consume LOD in a decentralised and off-line by
default context
Relevancy
We need to focus on the relevant dataMatches with local world
conceptualisation
Relevant to the target users community
Filtered and curated to be of minimal size
Example of on-going activitiesSampLD => When going off-line,
take with you only the subset of the LOD that is most useful for
you
Rainfall data => combine local data + yahoo data to reason
and forecast rainfall on a precise target area
Interfaces
We need to account for usersWith limited computer skills
With low literacy level
That speaks local languages
Outcome of the FP7 project VoicesVoice-based interfaces for
farmers in Mali
Three different systems adressing local needs
The Web of Voices
http://vimeo.com/68218759
Jump in !
We're an open community at http://worldwidesemanticweb.org
