Giant Global Graph
Giant Global Graph (GGG) is a name coined in 2007 by Tim Berners-Lee to help distinguish between the nature and significance of the content on the existing World Wide Web and that of a promulgated next-generation web, presumptively named Web 3.0.[1] In common usage, "World Wide Web" refers primarily to a web of discrete information objects readable by human beings, with functional linkages provided between them by human-created hyperlinks. Next-generation Web 3.0 information designs go beyond the discrete web pages of previous generations by emphasizing the metadata which describe information objects like web pages and attribute the relationships that conceptually or semantically link the information objects to each other. Additionally, Web 3.0 technologies and designs enable the organization of entirely new kinds of human- and machine-created data objects.
An important related concept that overlaps with Giant Global Graph without fully encompassing it is that of the Semantic Web.
The GGG concept also relates to the Decentralization of Internet Information,
Crucially, where the term Web 3.0 refers to a suite of technologies and to a particular phase in the development of the web, the term Giant Global Graph is intended to refer more generally to the total environment of information that will be generated and sustained through the implementation of these technologies. This environment will be a qualitatively different one than that which existed before the development of these technologies.
As of 2017, anticipated progress toward a pervasive semantic web has been side-tracked by the widespread application of machine learning technologies to process existing, unstructured data and content, and that it is no longer clear whether a Web 3.0 epoch will materialize as originally envisioned.[citation needed]
History
The term Giant Global Graph was notably used the first time by the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, on his blog.[2]
Tim Berners-Lee thinks about the social network itself that is inside and between social-network Web sites such as Facebook. He assumes that people can use the word "Graph" to distinguish these from the "Web". Then he says that, although he called this graph the Semantic Web, maybe it should have been called the "Giant Global Graph".
"GGG" has been used several times by Berners-Lee and by others in other blogs.[3][4] GGG may be described as the content plus pointers of the WWW transitioning to content plus pointers plus relationships plus descriptions.
Significantly, the Giant Global Graph concept seems to have been a significant input in Facebook's concept and name for their "
See also
- peer-to-peer
- distributed system
References
- ^ "Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English (Presentations)". Digital Inspiration. May 30, 2009. Archived from the original on June 3, 2009. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
- ^ a b Tim Berners-Lee (2007-11-21). "Giant Global Graph". DIG. Archived from the original on July 13, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
- ^ Paul Miller (November 26, 2007). "Analysis of Recent Blogs". Nodalities. Archived from the original on December 1, 2007.
- ^ "Comparison of WWW vs. GGG with Data vs. Objects". Web 3.0. November 25, 2007. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
- ^ "Facebook F8: One graph to rule them all". CNET. April 21, 2010. Retrieved July 25, 2016.