Foreword

Skunkworks and Generality

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I INTRODUCTION

1 Background and Early life -- 1.1 London Childhood -- 1.2 Physics by Day, Computer Science by Night -- 1.3 Shrinking Technology -- 1.4 Weaving the Web -- 1.5 Building Consensus -- 1.6 First Among Equals -- 1.7 Inclusive and Decentralized

2 Utopia to Dystopia and Back Again? -- 2.1 Welcome by the Event Host, Prof. Dr. Hans Akkermans -- 2.2 The Lecture by Tim Berners-Lee -- 2.3 History: Designing the WWW -- 2.4 Defending the WWW -- 2.5 The Utopian Promise Blooms -- 2.6 Dystopia Emerged -- 2.7 Re-decentralizing the Web -- 2.8 Acknowledgements -- 2.9 Questions and Answers

PART II WEAVING THE WEB

3 The World-Wide Web -- 3.1 What Does W3 Define? --3.2 Universal Resource Identifiers --3.3 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- 3.4 Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) -- 3.5 W3 and Other Systems -- 3.6 Recent W3 Developments -- 3.7 The Future -- 3.8 Conclusion -- Appendix. Getting started -- About the Authors -- Glossary and Further Reading

4 Web Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Web -- 4.1 What Is It? -- 4.2 Beneath the Web Graph -- 4.3 From Power Laws to People -- 4.4 The Web of Data -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References

5 Building for Search Engines: Following REST -- Note from the editors -- A Programmable Web: An Unfinished Work Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology

PART III MAKING THE WEB MEANINGFUL

6 The Semantic Web: A New Form of Web Content that is Meaningful to Computers will Unleash a Revolution of New Possibilities -- 6.1 Expressing Meaning -- 6.2 Knowledge Representation -- 6.3 Ontologies -- 6.4 Agents -- 6.5 Evolution of Knowledge

7 The Impact of the Web on Information Retrieval -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Searching the Web -- 7.3 Making Sense of the Web -- 7.4 Conclusions -- References

8 Linked Data - The Story So Far -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 What is Linked Data? -- 8.3 The Linking Open Data Project -- 8.4 Publishing Linked Data on the Web -- 8.5 Linked Data Applications -- 8.6 Related Developments (in Research and Practice) -- 8.7 Research Challenges -- 8.8 Conclusion -- References -- Bios

9 Linking the World's Data -- 9.1 Data Before the Web -- 9.2 A Web of Data -- 9.3 Linked Data -- 9.4 Success, Failure, or the New Normal? -- References

PART IV UNDERSTANDING AND PROTECTING THE WEB'S MISSION

10 The World Wide Web Consortium -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Origins and Consensus -- 10.3 Convening a Global Community -- 10.4 W3C Members Drive the Consortium; the Staff Steers -- 10.5 The Importance of Developers -- 10.6 Ensuring the Web Remains Royalty-Free -- 10.7 Making the Web Accessible -- 10.8 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References

11 The Open Data Revolution -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The UK Open Data Project -- 11.3 Freeing the Data -- 11.4 A Race to the Top -- 11.5 Principals, Protocols, and Process -- 11.6 Open Data Politics -- 11.7 Institutional Engineering -- 11.8 Open Data versus Personal Data -- 11.9 The Future -- References

12 A Web for Everyone

PART V WEAVING THE WEB FOR THE FUTURE

13 Decentralization: The Future of Online Social Networking -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Motivation -- 13.3 Decentralized Online Social Networking -- 13.4 A Possible User Interface to Decentralized Social Networking -- 13.5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References

14 Tim Berners-Lee's Research at the Decentralized Information Group at MIT -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Data Modeling and Visualization -- 14.3 Web and Policy -- 14.4 Ongoing Work -- 14.5 Conclusion -- References

15 Re-decentralizing the Web, For Good This Time -- 15.1 Power to the People -- 15.2 A Short History of (De-)Centralization and the Web -- 15.3 Taking Back Control of our Data -- 15.4 Independent Innovation in Separate Data and Service Spaces -- 15.5 The Solid Project -- 15.6 A Decentralized Web for All -- References

16 What the World Needs to Keep Learning from Tim Berners-Lee's Creation of the Web -- 16.1 Lessons & Challenges -- 16.2 Responding to Challenges -- 16.3 Conclusion -- References

17 Contributors' Biographies -- Editors -- Foreword Authors -- Chapter Authors

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