1st workshop on linked data and distributed ledgers introduction v 1.0
1. 1st Workshop on
Linked Data and
Distributed Ledgers
Elena Simperl (ECS - University of Southampton)
John Domingue (@johndmk) (KMi - Open University)
Fabien Gandon (Université Côte d’Azur, Inria, CNRS,
I3S)
Luis-Daniel Ibáñez (ECS - University of Southampton)
10. Linked Data for Distributed
Ledgers
• Architectures and protocols for DL interoperability
• Architectures and protocols for interoperability between
DLs and other Web components and architectures (non-
ledger based web services, web databases, etc)
• Domain specific human readable vocabularies for DApps
• Extensions of web data models and formats to
accommodate Distributed Ledgers (JSON, HTTP, HTML,
RDF, etc)
• Languages and query engines for Distributed Ledgers
• Privacy considerations of interoperating Distributed
Ledgers
11. Distributed Ledgers for Linked
Data
• Decentralisation and disintermediation of web-
based architectures.
• Distributed management of identity and online
identity.
• Distributed Ledger backing of general Linked
Data processes: vocabulary and dataset
evolution, entity naming and re-naming, etc.
• DLs for Web and Linked Data provenance.
• DL-backing of Web signatures
• Digital rights management and enforcing
12. Programme (1/2)
09:00 – 09:30 Introduction by steering committee
09:30 – 10:30 Blockchain, Distributed Ledgers and Linked Data. Peter Evans-
Greenwood - Centre for the Edge AU | Deloitte Consulting
10:30 – 11:00 Morning tea
11:00 - 11:30 Linked Data Indexing of Distributed Ledgers Allan Third and John
Domingue - The Open University
11:30 - 12:00 Preserving the Archival Bond in Distributed Ledgers Victoria Lemieux
(University of British Columbia) and Manu Sporny (Digital Bazaar Inc.)
12:00 - 12:30 DL-BAC: Distributed Ledger Based Access Control Lei Xu, Lin Chen,
Nolan Shah, Zhimin Gao, Yang Lu and Weidong Shi - University of Houston
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13. Programme (2/2)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:30 Building Better Blockchains Manu
Sporny - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
14:30 – 15:00 Round Table organisation and start
15:00 – 15:30 Afternoon tea
15:30 – 16:30 Round Table discussion
16:30 – 17:00 Summary of discussions from the
roundtables, call for action for future activities, wrap up
of the workshop.