Distributed and connected information in the internet

Abstract

The Internet has established itself as the universal data and information infrastructure. It is used not only for providing and retrieving data in a diverse range of application domains involving human and machine actors, but also as a distributed processing platform. We investigate Internet data and information with a number of technological questions in mind: In which format should data be represented? Where and how should it be stored? How can data be managed? How can the data relevant to a specific need be found in the vast space of the Internet? How can it be accessed by human and machine users, and how can it be processed into information? We cover the Web including the processing of textual, user-generated and Linked Data, as well as the Internet as a processing platform with data exchange between services and for handling Big Data.