A new software ecosystem for trusted, traceable & transparent ontological knowledge

Presentation made at the Workshop "Semantic web and Blockchain", part of the European Blockchain Week 2021.

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ONTOCHAIN - A new software ecosystem for trusted, traceable & transparent ontological knowledge
At the meeting point between the Semantic Web and Blockchain

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   ONTOCHAIN
   A new software ecosystem for
   trusted, traceable & transparent
   ontological knowledge
   EU Blockchain Summit - 22/09/2021
   Caroline Barelle, PhD.
   ONTOCHAIN NGI Coordinator
   European Dynamics
   At the meeting point between the
   Semantic Web and Blockchain
   

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   ONTOCHAIN
   ONTOCHAIN was launched in September 2020 to empower innovators and end users
   through 3 Open Calls to develop blockchain-based knowledge management solutions that
   will be part of a novel software ecosystem for a better share of knowledge and value.
   ONTOCHAIN - Trust traceable and transparent ontological knowledge on blockchain, is a European
   project funded by the European Commission under the European Union’s Horizon 2020
   Research and Innovation Programme, and part of the European Commission’s Next Generation
   Internet (NGI) initiative.
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    OC1 Research : Design
    OC2 Protocol suite and software ecosystem foundations : Implementation
    OC3 Application and experimentation : Deployment
   

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   ONTOCHAIN 7 CORE PARTNERS
   Experts in among others in
    Semantic Web,
    Linked Data,
    Ontology engineering,
    Blockchain interoperability,
    Knowledge management,
    Distributed and
   decentralised computing,
    Business models for
   trusted knowledge …
   

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   TODAY’S INTERNET
   CHALLENGES
   The internet of the future should be more
   resilient, trustworthy and sustainable.
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   The success of the Internet lied in free speech,
   open innovation & Interoperability
   ONTOCHAIN approach is to leverage
   sementic web and blockchain assets to
   built as a distinct added value for the next
   generation internet:
   -Trustworthy data and services exchange
   -Trustworthy content handling
   However
   Growing concerns that openess, trustworthyness,
   privacy and security are being threatened by the
   quest for high performance and profit
   Multiple threat have been identified when people
   interact with online services :
    Unknown provenance of information
    Anonimity in favor of criminal activities
    Personal privacy violation & personal data exploitation
    Biases in AI algorithms
    No fair rewards for quality contribution
    Spread of fake news
    Centralisation of power
   Existing problems of misuse of
   information can soon achieve even
   more dangerous level !
   

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   SEMENTIC WEB
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   BLOCKCHAIN
   Set of technologies that focus on data,
   i.e., how they are described, modelled,
   and linked.
   A technology that aims at storing data
   and share such data among a set of
   peers, who validate the content without
   the intervention of a third-party
   services.
   Trustworthiness is achieved by standardised storage and ontologies (shared
   conceptualisation) on one hand as well as on the other hand by the decentralisation and
   data immutability (shared ledger)
   ONTOCHAIN
   

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   ONTOCHAIN FRAMEWORK
   Mapping according to the 3 open calls
   ONTOCHAIN Third Parties are
   present at EBW
    GraphChain, MakoLab
    POC4COMMERCE, Uni. of Catania
    DART, Uni. of Padova
    KNOWLEDGE X, Jaden X GmbH
    HIBI Datarella GmbH
   

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   THE 7 FINAL CALL1 PROJECTS IN THE ONTOCHAIN
   FRAMEWORK
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   Project Main Results Feature supported Other to mention
   OntoSsiVault Horizontal SDK SSI Store and manage
   credentials
   HIBI Horizontal SDK SSI EiD based credentials
   CopyrightLY Vertical microservices Authorship and reuse Defines utility token
   KnowledgeX Vertical microservices Data privacy Also matchmaching and
   other services
   REPUTABLE Vertical microservices Reputation management Defines utility token
   GraphChain Semantic data base Integration of semantics in
   blockchain
   POC4COmmerce Ontologies E- commerce ontologies Tokens and exchange
   mechanism
   

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   CONCLUSION
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   As future work:
    Define the ONTOCHAIN architecture in more depth with detailed API among the different
   components and implementation details.
    Demonstrate prototype implementations of exemplary distributed applications enabled by
   the proposed platform
   

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   CONCLUSION
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   At the end, ONTOCHAIN will deliver a complete software ecosystem and novel, ambitious
   Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) applications in areas such as :
    trustworthy web and social media
    trustworthy crowdsensing
    trustworthy service orchestration
    decentralised and unsupervised online social networks
    …
   Successful : if this ecosystem of innovative applications is widely and sustainably adopted by
   vital sectors of the European economy.
   That is our intention!
   

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10. STAY UPDATED
    AND GET INVOLVED!
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    ontochain.ngi.eu
    @ONTOCHAIN
    @ONTOCHAIN
    f6s.com/ontochainproject
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    Thank you!
    Special acknowledgement to all
    ONTOCHAIN partners and third parties
    

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