Link for the ODW minutes

Dear Hadley, Bernadette, Phil, everyone,

It was great seeing many of you in Dublin and London ! :)

Here is the link to the ERS project I talked about during the break out
sessions at ODW:
http://worldwidesemanticweb.wordpress.com/projects/entity-registries/
("WikiReg" is an internal name for DANS - I will update the blog soon)
all the code is on GitHub:
https://github.com/ers-devs

This project started around the idea that in Africa, where intercontinental
Internet is still expensive, it is rather stupid to have to issue an
international query just to resolve a domain name considering that LOD uses
FQDNs only as part of the URI - which is the only identifier LOD cares
about. I discussed that with Philippe Cudré Mauroux, he discussed that with
VeriSign, and we got a grant to work on that !
What we are implementing now - and have to deliver in November - is a
system that is in fact very close to OKKAM but de-centralised and works
offline. The entities are identified by URNs. Every system joining the
network can extend the description of entities, create new ones and
interconnect them. All the data is stored in couchDB and directly served by
the nodes. It's a bit like if rather than having one (Wiki/DB)pedia server
everyone editing the pages would serve the diffs directly from his own
machine :-)
(Of course there are many other problems that come up. We have an answer to
most of them but I want to keep the mail short so feel free to ask if you
want to know more)

Besides, to come back to the point I made about HTTPS, I think encryptions
technologies on the Web (TLS, GPG, ...) did not receive the attention they
deserve. It's only very recently that HTTPS has become the default for
social sites and that browsers started to show certificates to validate
domain name instead of just letting the user see if the domain name looks
good. I mentionned WebID but my point was more, "Shall we talk about
trusted connections for Open (Gov) Data ?" to which I would answer, "Yes,
obviously". I hope most Open Data enthusiast share that point of view...


Cheers,
Christophe

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