A world wide access to the Semantic Web

Our current mind set as Semantic Web engineers is to focus on centralized and very powerful solutions centered (and depending on …) around Web hosted servers and (mobile) clients accessing it. As a direct consequence of that, the usage of Linked Data depends on the availability of a Web infrastructure compassing data-centers, high speed reliable Internet connection and modern client devices. If any of this is missing, our community is not able, yet, to provide any Linked Data enabled data management solution. Still, the digital divide that is currently widely recognized separates the world into those who have access to Web-based platforms and those who don’t.

When designing Linked Data platforms we tend to forget those 4 Billion persons who don’t have access to Internet but would benefit from being able to use Linked Data. We should keep everyone in mind when we design Linked Data platforms and aim at helping to reduce this digital divide.

This web site is a collaborative effort to document steps made into that direction. Please feel free to ask for an editor account if you want to contribute.

ISWC 2012 tutorial on LD4D: Linked Data for Development

Reblogged from videbo:

This weekend we got the great news that our tutorial proposal “LD4D: Linked Data for Development” is accepted as a full day tutorial at the ISWC 2012 conference that will be held this November in Boston. The tutorial was co-authored by Christophe Guéret, Victor de Boer and Stefan Schlobach from VU Amsterdam and Walter Bender and Bernie Innocenti from 

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J-2, we’re almost there !

Poster of Downscale 2012

 

The schedule for the first workshop on DownScaling the Semantic Web is now ready and we also prepared a poster. Jump on the program page to see what we will be talking about on May 28. If you are attending ESWC don’t forget to visit the workshop and share your ideas on making Semantic Web technologies, and data sharing opportunities, accessible to everyone