Blockchain for digital libraries and preservation. An AI point of view. My personal point of view
Professor Jose de la Rosa Estava, University of Girona (UdG)
In his talk, Prof. Jose de la Rosa Estava will focus on the concept of Blockchain and the application of smart contracts. In these days, a massive migration of value onto the Blockchain happens along with new identities forged for handling this value, which needs to be preserved.
This value is about usage and, moreover, the regulated usage of digital objects. Thus, value preservation is an extended mission of digital preservation. It follows the steps of migration, tokenisation and preservation.
The preservation of value means keeping integrity, genuinity, and usability of the value related to the digital object, for the long-term, across exchanges.
This concept has important applications to open data and needs to be properly managed by the right actors and regulated by means of smart contracts or licenses on the Blockchain. Prof. de la Rosa will exemplify the theory with some examples.
Professor Jose de la Rosa Estava of the University of Girona (UdG) Spain is a visiting professor at ETH Zurich in 2019-2020. At the same time, he is also Director of the external page Technology Research TECNIO Easy Centre and of the external page Distributed Ledger Technologies and Artificial Intelligence master degree of Barcelona, as well as of the external page official master in Smart Cities of the UdG.
De la Rosa is a specialist for intelligent agents, virtual currencies, digital preservation and their applications. With his entrepreneurial vision, he has launched several spin-off companies starting with the first world robotic soccer team as early as 1996, to customer intelligence in 2000, virtual currencies in 2010, and several blockchain initiatives from 2015 onwards.
De la Rosa has been researching the Blockchain and smart contracts technologies to design new types of money suitable for the Internet and scanning for its applications in general and in IP, open innovation, and digital preservation in particular. Today he is advising several blockchain projects, as for example licens3d.com and welicense.io.