LinkedData 2008 Vision Competition - the results are in!
20.05.2008
The Semantic Web Company is a partner of this year's conference in June in New York. Tim Berners-Lee, Kingsley Idehen, Ian Davis, Anant Jhingran and Atanas Kiryakov will be among the Keynote speakers.
And the winner is....
The Semantic Web Company is an Association and Analyst Partner of this year’s LinkedData Planet conference, taking place on June 17-18, 2008 in New York. Keynote speaker include Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Kingsley Idehen and Ian Davis.
As part of this partnership, we launched a competition, asking for your vision of a future with Linked Open Data - and we have a winner!
Aman Shakya, who is a PhD student at the Department of Informatics at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) in Tokyo, developed his vision around the idea of ordinary people being able to publish structured data instead of unstructured text:
"The current gigantic network of web documents could be realized by enabling any user to publish any document and link to other documents. If we want to see the network of Linked Open Data explode on a similar scale, we need to enable general users to publish “data” directly on the web and link to other “data”. We need to move the paradigm of web page publishing and hyperlinking towards data publishing and data linking. We should enable people to post structured data about anything rather than just unstructured text. We need the active participation and contribution of the billions of worldwide internet users. Recently, the web has seen enormous user participation with the rise of easy-to-use social software. We should exploit this trend of social web applications, however, for enabling people to create, share and link “data” on the global Linked Data Web."