LD-DL'17 Workshop Keynote Talk By Many Sporny: Building Better Blockchains Via Linked Data

This presentation explores the current state of Blockchain research as it relates to Linked Data. The topics covered by the presentation include: 1) a basic definition of a blockchain, 2) an analysis of current blockchain capabilities, 3) compelling blockchain use cases where Linked Data would provide compelling benefits, 4) how Linked Data may be used to enhance blockchain capabilities, 5) a list of unresolved research and standardization needs as it relates to the expression of blockchains using Linked Data, and 6) possible venues where future work may be coordinated. © 2017 International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2), published under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License. WWW 2017 Companion, April 3-7, 2017, Perth, Australia. ACM 978-1-4503-4914-7/17/04. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3041021.3053899 General Terms Design, Experimentation, Security, Standardization, Languages, Theory, Verification.