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Towards a Web of Digital Twins discussion
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Hi @olivierthereaux
Another question that I think people might be interested in.
You make a really interesting comparison with the world wide web. What can we learn from the work being done by the World Wide Web Consortium on the Web of Things related to data and interoperability for IoT please?
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Just now, Nicholas said:
You make a really interesting comparison with the world wide web. What can we learn from the work being done by the World Wide Web Consortium on the Web of Things related to data and interoperability for IoT please?
We were heavily inspired by the work of the W3C (as Simon mentions in the intro to the talk, the ODI and the W3C share a founder, among many connections). We used some of those standards in our prototyping too – so in one way, you can see the web of things as a big part of the technical/protocol infrastructure for the web of twins.
One significant distinction however: I generally see the “web of things” as an approach where devices / assets can be connected directly. The big insight in our research about “web of twins” is that direct connections to the assets will often not be possible, or desirable for many reasons (security being one). That is why it is important to think about connections at differerent levels – collaboration on registers and identifiers, or pooling and sharing of insights.
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Many thanks to @olivierthereaux and to all of you for some really interesting comments and questions. We are now coming to the end of our live chat but we will keep this space open and available for a couple more days in case you have further thoughts or comments that you would like to add. We will continue to monitor the discussion during that time, but on a less frequent basis.
We had multiple conversation threads – we’ll reflect on each of these and work out the best way to take this forward and link into the work of the DT Hub and the wider National Digital Twin programme.
If you didn’t already, you can register your interest from the home page and you can also contact us on enquiries@digitaltwinhub.co.uk
Thank you all very much again.
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