Decentralizing the Semantic Web: Who Will Pay to Realize It?

Grubenmann, Tobias; Dell'Aglio, Daniele; Bernstein, Abraham; Moor, Dmitry; Seuken, Sven

Abstract

Fueled by enthusiasm of volunteers, government subsidies, and open data legislation, the Web of Data (WoD) has enjoyed a phenomenal growth. Commercial data, however, has been stuck in proprietary silos, as the monetization strategy for sharing data in the WoD is unclear. This contrasts with the traditional web where advertisement fueled a lot of the growth. This raises the question how the WoD can (i) maintain its success when government subsidies disappear and (ii) convince commercial entities to share their wealth of data. In this paper, we propose a marketplace for decentralized data following basic WoD principles. Our approach allows a customer to buy data from different, decentralized providers in a transparent way. As such, our marketplace presents a first step towards an economically viable WoD beyond subsidies.

Citation

Grubenmann, T., Dell'Aglio, D., Bernstein, A., Moor, D., & Seuken, S. (2017). Decentralizing the Semantic Web: Who Will Pay to Realize It?. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Decentralizing the Semantic Web 2017 co-located with 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017)

• Conference Name: DeSemWeb 2017: Decentralizing the Semantic Web
• Conference Location: Vienna
• Start Date: Oct 22, 2017
• End Date: Oct 22, 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Deposit Date: Jun 3, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 6, 2023
• Publisher: CEUR Workshop Proceedings
• Volume: 1934
• Series ISSN: 1613-0073
• Book Title: Proceedings of the Workshop on Decentralizing the Semantic Web 2017 co-located with 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017)
• Chapter Number: 1
• Publisher URL: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1934/contribution-01.pdf