Putting the Web
into
Context

Joost Hietbrink?
www.linkedin.com/in/joosthietbrink

September 2006

The success of the Web is leading to many new challenges and opportunities in the area of
data management. It has lead to new data formats such as XML and RDF which require
specific storage and management techniques that are different from those needed for
classical relational data. It has also lead to new ways of efficiently integrating and
transforming existing data sources such that it can be efficiently published on the Web. On
the other hand, techniques have been developed to integrate data already available on the
Web to enrich your own data. In this case different issues become more important such as
the fact that the data is more distributed, in more different formats, both structured and
semi-structured, and the matching criteria for connecting the data from the different
sources is far less obvious. Also completely new ways of dealing with data have evolved,
such as the Semantic Web, which entails the problem of meta-data management, and
Linked Open Data, which allows the publication of your own data such that it can be easily
linked with other data that is published in the same way. In this symposium we intend to
address some developments in both industry and the academic world that will lead to new
opportunities for enterprise applications.

Putting the Web
into
Context

EVERY DAY

300 new iPhone apps
1.000.000.000 downloads
9 months

3,000 new books

5,000 new tech startups

900,000 new blog posts

5,500 new songs
(only o cial cd releases)

100,000 new videos
13 hours uploaded every minute
412.3 years to watch every video

10,000,000 tweets

3.710.384 followers

3.710.384 followers

3710384
230000
AmberAlertNL @aplusk

50,000,000 new photos
3,600,000,000
photos on ickr

Netcraft # of (web)sites (september)
225,000,000
168,750,000
112,500,000
56,250,000
0
2001 2003 2005 2007 2009

Google index # of (web)pages:
16.000.000
1996:
8.000.000.000 x125
2005:
1.000.000.000.000
2008:

Google index # of (web)pages:
16.000.000
1996:
8.000.000.000 x125
2005:
1.000.000.000.000
2008:

Putting the Web
into
Context

Putting the Web
into
Context

Paris Hilton

Filter
verbal context, social context, time, ...

“I have a dream for the Web in which computers
become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web
– the content, links, and transactions between people
and computers.”
Tim Berners-Lee, 1999

“The next big thing people need is some more
organization on the Internet.”
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz on CNBC, 10 sept 2009

Questions?

Credits
Tim Has (eways.nl) (for some of the slides)
The Internet (for the rest)