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)

Blockchain

Overview

Ledgers

Everledgerwww.everledger.io

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/transactive-grid-ethereum-brooklyn-microgrid

https://www.docusign.com/blog/the-future-of-car-leasing-is-as-easy-as-click-sign-drive/

IBM: Device Democracy

http://www-935.ibm.com/services/multimedia/GBE03620USEN.pdf

Distributed Autonomous

Organisations

http://fortune.com/2016/05/15/leaderless-blockchain-vc-fund/

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

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

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

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.