Presentation for the panel discussion at the 5th AIS SIGPrag International Pragmatic Web Conference Track of I-SEMANTICS, Graz, Austria, Sep 1 2010 http://bit.ly/9U31KO

1. ICPW 2010 PragWeb Panel
What’s up with the Pragmatic Web?
Aldo de Moor
CommunitySense
the Netherlands
WWW.COMMUNITYSENSE.NL

2. An evolving Web
Web 1.0
Focus on information
“Digital brochures
Web 2.0
Focus on content, communication, and co-creation
YouTube, Facebook
Web 3.0
Focus on semantics, pragmatics, and collaboration
Wikigovernment

3. Pragmatic Web questions
How are communicative actions with a pragmatic
context performed via Web media?
How can mutual understanding and commitments to
action evolve in conversations?

4. Researching the Pragmatic Web
From potential Web functionalities to actual use
Theories
Language/Action Perspective
Language as coordination mechanism, focusing on
communicative interactions
Pragmatic Web
Impossible to describe data well enough for it to be used in
arbitrary applications.(Singh, 2002)
Moving the research focus from semantics to pragmatics,
from representing to using meaning (De Moor, 2005)
Applying appropriate web technologies to help improve the
quality and legitimacy of collaborative, goal-oriented
discourses in communities (Schoop et al, 2006)
Build a socio-technical infrastructure that supports the
negotiation of meaning and the coordination of action
(Aakhus, 2007)

5. A socio-technical conversation
context perspective

6. PragWeb publications
Source: Google Scholar, date 1-9-2010, all articles including term “Pragmatic Web”

7. Shaping the Pragmatic Web
- Social psychology
- Organization science
- Negotiation science
…
- Community
Informatics, LAP,
- HCI - CSCW
Org Semiotics
- Web 2.0,
Semantic Web
- Social media technologies
- Networking infrastructure
-…