1.  Copyright 2011 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved. Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie Linking the Real World Manfred Hauswirth

2. Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie A Network of Knowledge Interconnected Universal All encompassing Enable global and local collaboration The right information for the right people at the right time

3. Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie The general-purpose substrate Government Media User-generated Publications Life Sciences Cross-domain Geo Over 200 open data sets with more than 25 billion facts, interlinked by 400 million typed links, doubling every 10 month! Over 200 open data sets with more than 25 billion facts, interlinked by 400 million typed links, doubling every 10 month!

4. Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie The Problem

5. Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie The Goal

6. Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie Across research areas The Real World People Objects Information Communication Knowledge Mgmt Semantic Web Services Databases Distributed Systems Middleware Pervasive Computing Networking Internet of Things Ontologies Policies Linked Open Data LOD stream processing RESTful services Web services Distributed databases Distributed sensor networks Publish/Subscribe Mobile Networking Peer-to-peer Content Distribution Networks Information-centric networking Opportunistic routing CoAP 6LoWPAN Wireless Sensor Networks

7. Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie Make it comprehensive!

8. Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie Make it simple!

9. Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie The world will follow! Simple abstractions and available systems work!  Internet: IP  WWW: HTTP + URL  Apps: Mobile OS + market The next opportunity?  Internet-connected objects  LOD + REST Every-ONE/every-THING can REFER TO every-ONE/every-THING