Redecentralizing the Web with Distributed Ledgers
Luis Ibáñez, Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Fabien L. Gandon, Henry Story · IEEE Intelligent Systems · 2017
The web was originally conceived as decentralized and universal, but during its popularization, its big value was built on centralized servers and nonuniversal access. A key element to redecentralize the web is to be able to generate trustable, secure, and accountable updates among autonomous participants without a central server. The authors believe that the marriage between distributed ledgers and linked data can provide this functionality and unlock the web's true potential. As a first step toward it, the authors propose a minimal vocabulary to describe and link distributed ledgers.