Awakening the web of self-sovereign data with ESPRESSO: a scoping review of Solid's and Dataswyft's readiness for decentralized private search

Oliver, Helen, Ragab, Mohamed, Savateev, Yury, Tiropanis, Thanassis, Poulovassilis, Alex, Chapman, Adriane and Russos, George (2024) Awakening the web of self-sovereign data with ESPRESSO: a scoping review of Solid's and Dataswyft's readiness for decentralized private search. In International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy (CADE 2024). IET Conference Publications. 12 pp . (doi:10.1049/icp.2024.2536).

Abstract

The Internet in 2024 has become a mechanism for turning users into suppliers of data to third parties, a disappointing descent from the noble origins of the World Wide Web. Human-generated data becomes fodder for artificial intelligence to devalue human intelligence at scale. To take back control, one approach is for “self-sovereign” users to store personal data in servers of their own, and let third parties come to them for access, which the data owner grants selectively and granularly. This is the private, decentralized, re-idealized Web. Solid provides a manifesto, a solution, and a protocol for this re-idealization. Before Solid came Dataswyft's Hub-of-All-Things, a personal data ecosystem with a similar philosophy of self-sovereignty, developed from the perspective of exchange of personal metadata as an economic asset. However, barriers to adoption of private personal online data stores threaten the survival of these systems. The original World Wide Web was globally adopted because the power of search ma

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Author: Thanassis Tiropanis

Author: Adriane Chapman

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