
doi: 10.1109/mis.2017.18
The web was originally conceived as decentralized and universal, but during its popularization, its big value was built on centralized servers and nonuniversal access. A key element to redecentralize the web is to be able to generate trustable, secure, and accountable updates among autonomous participants without a central server. The authors believe that the marriage between distributed ledgers and linked data can provide this functionality and unlock the web's true potential. As a first step toward it, the authors propose a minimal vocabulary to describe and link distributed ledgers.
[INFO.INFO-AI] Computer Science [cs]/Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI], Blockchain, 330, [INFO.INFO-WB] Computer Science [cs]/Web, Linked data, [INFO.INFO-SI] Computer Science [cs]/Social and Information Networks [cs.SI], Web, Semantic web
[INFO.INFO-AI] Computer Science [cs]/Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI], Blockchain, 330, [INFO.INFO-WB] Computer Science [cs]/Web, Linked data, [INFO.INFO-SI] Computer Science [cs]/Social and Information Networks [cs.SI], Web, Semantic web
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