The Potential of Blockchain Technology for the Media Industry An interview with Sebastian Posth This interview by Steffen Meier first appeared in German language in No. 11/2017 of Steffen Meier’s digital publishing report. Original title: “Building Blocks for the Content Community. Blockchain und Verlage”. Introduction Blockchain is a future-oriented technology as well as a hype, in […]
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Exploding costs of storing data on a Blockchain
Exploding Costs of storing information on a Blockchain Important note: This article uses approximations with regards to volatile data or values that are difficult to determine. Please see notes for extended information on why and how we chose certain examples and calculated prices. Storing information on a blockchain, in addition to the mere transaction data, could […]
ISCC Benchmarking
ISCC-Benchmarking by Patricia Schinke In this post, we give a quick summary of the tests that we ran up to now during the development of the ISCC. Each component of the ISCC shall have its proper round of test runs in order to ensure a smoothly working concept at the end of the development phase. […]
Extended capabilities of the ISCC
Extended capabilities of the ISCC The ISCC is not only suited to unambiguously identify complete works, but can also be easily used to unambiguously reference parts of a work. For example, let’s take a news article consisting of 500 words and three images. In addition to the most obvious use case, i. e., the creation […]
Smart Licenses “Rights Profile Wizard”
Smart Licenses “Rights Profile Wizard” We have also made considerable progress with our Smart License concepts. There is a first draft of a “Rights Profile Wizard” for experimentation available at: https://rightsprofiledemo.content-blockchain.org
First Draft Open Standard Specifications
ISCC Open Standard Specification Based on our prototyping code we have also published the first draft of the specifications for the ISCC. The Specification is developed in a public github repository and the current status is published at http://iscc.codes/specification/. One of our goals for the final specification is to make it as easy as possible for developers to […]
Release of Demo Web Application
Release of Demo Web Application We have launched the first version of our prototype web application that demonstrates the creation of content identifiers for plain text content. We made an effort to visually demonstrate the inner workings of the ISCC. Give it a try at: https://isccdemo.content-blockchain.org.