Read Write Web — Q3 Summary — 2016 [via Read Write Web Community Group]

Summary
The community group celebrates its 5th birthday this quarter.  With almost 3000
posts (roughly 2 per day) from around 100 members a large number of topics have
been raised, discussed and resolved.  A bit thank you to to everyone that has
been involved!

On the subject of statistics, there was a great paper produced by AKSW:
LODStats: The Data Web Census Dataset which provides a comprehensive picture of
the current state of a significant part of the Data Web.  There was also a
status update from the LDP Next Community Group and Data on the Web Best
Practices is now a Candidate Recommendation.

TPAC 2016 got under way in Lisbon.  While there was not a dedicated RWW session
this year, many members of the group attended various related topics.  There
was some interest reported around the work on Verified Claims, which hopes to
form a working group quite soon.


Communications and Outreach
Apart from TPAC, I was able to attend the 3rd annual Hackers Congress at
Paralelni Polis, which aims to spread ideas of decentralization in technology. 
I was able to interact with some thought leaders in the crypto currency space
and try to explain the decentralized nature of the web and how it can grow
organically using standards to read and write.  I also got a chance to talk to
people form the remote storage project.

 
Community Group
Having reached the 5 year milestone, it is perhaps a good time to reflect on the
direction of the community group.  Do we want to keep going as we are, focus on
specific topics, me more discussion oriented or more standards creation
oriented?  I'll send out a questionnaire on this.

A thread on ways to (re) decentralize the web generated some discussion.  There
was also some discussion around the Internet of Things and a possible new
framework for using Linked Data to read and write.


Applications
More work has been done in modularizing the solid linked data browser / editor
into separate modular chunks (solid-ui, solid-app-set), that can be used to
create apps on data, using a javascript shim.  An analogy I like to think of is
RSS being a structured data format but with some code it can become a useful
application.  Solid app set allows this to happen for any class of data.  I am
really enjoying this paradigm and have started to translate the apps I write. 
Here is an example of a playlist pane translation of a clients side app.  Tim
has written a lot more of these in the same repo.

Node solid server has progressed, with the permissions system being broken down
into its own module, solid permissions.  Also improvements have been made to
the profile ui and the dashboard, which are still works in progress.

Much progress has been made on the document editor, dokie.li, which is now also
driving the Linked Data Notifications spec towards Candidate Recommendation, and
integrating with the Web annotations specs.  An slightly older screencast of
functionality is available here, but I am told new ones will also be published
very soon.


Last but not Least...

We welcome the launch of Cognoto.
Cognonto (a portmanteau of 'cognition' and 'ontology') exploits large-scale
knowledge bases and semantic technologies for machine learning, data
interoperability and mapping, and fact and entity extraction and tagging.
Check a sample term, or read more from this comprehensive blog post.



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