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From YouTube: Decentralized Data Stewardship - Matt Zumwalt
Description
Originally recorded during the Berlin Developers Meetings from July 9-13, 2018.
A
Talk
that
I'm
condensing
down
to
five
so
we'll
see
how
I
do
for
time.
So
when
we
talk
about
this
decentralized
web
stuff,
often
we're
talking
about
network
topologies
and
there's
this
other
aspect
of
decentralization
of
asking
who
can
actually
hold
the
data
who
can
actually
possess
the
data
that
they're
relying
on
or
that
they've
created?
And
how
do
we?
How
do
we
extract
the
data
that
we've
created
in
these
centralized
systems
and
take
it
into
our
own
possession?
What
does
that
look
like?
A
How
do
we
do
that
and
the
the
point
that
I've
been
making
a
lot
within
the
institutions
like
libraries
and
archives,
is
that
the
decentralized
web
is
still
forming,
and
so,
if
people
want
the
this
new
version
of
the
web
to
be
built
in
a
way
that
goes
deeper
than
profit
motives,
that's
that
is
built
around
structures
and
patterns
that
go
deeper
than
profit
motives.
Those
organizations
need
to
step
up
and
actually
build
themselves
in
this
new
web.
So
what
does
that?
A
Look
like
I
often
point
to
this
idea
of
libraries
asking
the
question:
why
did
we
create
libraries
in
the
first
place
that
libraries
worked
really
well
for
print
publications?
It
was
a
place
where,
if
you
had
information
that
you
want
to
be
available
to
your
whole
community,
you
could
put
it
into
the
holdings
of
the
library
or
nominate
it
for
the
library
to
put
in
their
holdings
and
then
that
library
exists
to
make
it
available
for
everyone.
A
But
when
the
web
came
along,
we
all
dropped
the
ball
on
that,
because
we
thought
the
web
would
make
information
ubiquitous,
because
we
thought
the
web
was
like
a
library
because
you
can
use
a
library
or
the
web
to
find
and
access
information.
But
libraries
are
actually
a
means
of
sharing
possession
of
an
infant
of
information
which
the
web
is
not,
and
so
that's
where
we
need
to
reincorporate.
A
How
do
we?
How
do
we
share
possession
of
information
resources,
particularly
digital
information,
and
this
is
where
location
addressing
Bercy
content
addressing
becomes
so
central?
This
is
why
ipfs
is
so
important
for
decentralized
data.
Stewardship
is
because,
with
a
location,
addressed
approach,
every
time
you
make
a
copy,
it
becomes
actually
a
distinct
information
resource.
A
It
is
a
different
thing
in
the
view
of
a
location
address
web,
and
so
they
end
up
competing
with
each
other
rather
than
reinforcing
each
other,
and
when
you
consider
the
economics
of
that
of
whoever
controls
the
central
one
of
those
locations,
if
they
become
the
location
that
you
go
to
to
find
or
create
information,
they
control
the
machinery
of
communication,
which
means
that
any
of
the
work
that
you
do
of
creating
information
in
that
system
is.
Is
it's
a
it's
labor
that
you're
putting
into
that
system?
A
The
product
of
that
labor
ends
up
defaulting
to
being
the
property
of
whoever
runs
that
machinery,
and
so
that
looks
a
whole
lot
like
wage
labor,
great
examples,
sound
cloud
there,
people
freaked
out
when
they're
worried
that
sound
cloud
is
gonna,
be
shut
down,
Twitter,
shutting
down
vine
and
people,
sort
of
mourning.
The
loss
of
vine
using
location
address,
links
pointing
to
a
system
that
they
know
is
being
shut
down,
and
so
this
whole
situation
of
competing
to
be
the
location.
A
And
so
we
need
ways
to
possess
and
exchange
the
information
we
rely
on
individually
and
collectively,
and
so
that
the
information
should
be
held
by
the
people
who
rely
on
in
the
communities
and
institutions
should
be
aggregating
that
information
and
the
resources
to
possess
that
information
so
that
it
can
be
accessible
so
that
it's
discoverable
and
so
that
it
can
be
preserved
for
the
long-term.
So
that's
where
we
get
back
to
this
idea
of
sharing
possession
of
information
resources,
do
I
really
have
more
than
a
minute
left
on
that
time.
A
Okay,
all
right,
so
yeah
new
patterns
around
all
of
that
we've
been
in
this
collaboration
called
data
together,
which
is
which
is
specifically
sort
of
spelling
out
the
model
there
and
we've
recently
just
hired
Michelle
Hertzfeld
to
be
leading
decentralized
data
stewardship
for
all
these
activities.
So
thank
you
and
watch
for
lots.
Lots
a
whole
lot
more
in
that
domain.