Presentation delivered at the ADAM final symposium, October 3 2014.

1. The Decentralization of Knowledge
Harry Halpin (W3C/MIT)
Alexandre Monnin (Inria, expert Etalab)

2. The Hidden History of Google

3. Cybernetics is Not Enough

4. Putting the Symbols Back in the Machine
Artificial Intelligence, LISP, semantic networks

5. Knowledge Representation Hypothesis
Anymechanicallyembodiedintelligentprocesswillbecomprisedofstructuralingredientsthata)weasexternalobserversnaturallytaketorepresentapropositionalaccountoftheknowledgethattheoverallprocessexhibits,andb)independentofsuchexternalsemanticalattribution,playaformalbutcausalandessentialroleinengenderingthebehaviorthatmanifeststhatknowledge[Smith,1982].

6. The Frame Problem, Issues with what's in a Link and AI Winter

7. Afterthe AI winter: The SemanticWeb or Carnap onward
Carnap
McCarthy/Hayes
Berners- Lee/Hayes

8. AN intellectualgenealogy
Logical positivism (metrology)
Logical AI
Semantic Web/Linked Data

9. A tale of threeencyclopedias
Universal Encyclopedia of Unified Science
CYC
Wikipedia/DBpedia

10. The Web and decentralized knowledge

11. The Web, the Semantic Web and Wikipedia/DBpedia
First principle behind the Web : anyone can designate anything(any thing, any «resource»).

12. The Web, the Semantic Web and Wikipedia/DBpedia
FirstprinciplebehindtheSemanticWeb/LinkedData:theAAAprinciple.
«AnyonecansayAnythingaboutAnything», meaningthatanyonecandesignateanyresourcewithaURI,describeitwithanyresource(withotherURIs)andlinkittoanyresource(again,thankstoevenmoreURIs!).

13. The Web, the Semantic Web and Wikipedia/DBpedia
how do wecome to an agreement, wheredo wefindthe constituentsof a sharedworld? Wheredo wefinda «parliamentof things» (Latour)?
Short answer: Wikipediafor the Web, DBpediafor the Web of Data.
A centralizedplatformfor decentralizedcontributions

15. The re-centralization of the Web of knowledge

16. A parliament of things?
No,Google’sKnowledgeGraph:
Youcan’tlinktoitsresources(reusesthecommonknowledgeofWikipedia/Dbpediawithoutreinforcingthevirtuouscirclethatmadethempossible)
Controversyistreatedasadisposabledefect
FueledbyWikidata,aGoogle-fundedWikimediaprojecttoproducestructureddatafortheKnowledgeGraph(atrojanhorse?)
Ontologicaldemocracyvscorporationobjectivity

17. The Semantic Web?
No, one ontologyfor all: schema.org
Createdby RamanathanGuha(one of the
brainsbehindCYC and RDF)
One generalontology(enactsnew worlds)
for all domains
ranby a handfulof corporation(s)
…

18. Reclaimthe Web, re-de-centralizethe Web: not justa telcoissue
A deeply, democraticand philosophicalone
#webwewant