What is it about?
The blockchain ecosystem has undergone three distinct periods of exponential growth — the ICO boom of 2017, the Defi summer of 2020, and most recently the NFT wave of 2021. However, it was not yet seen a “web3-native” approach towards NFTs from any major brand. By that, we mean that no brand has upended its Web 2.0 architecture and replaced it entirely with a web3 stack. Instead, brands have taken a more measured approach, exploring NFT drops, integrations, and community growth developed separately from their core offerings. This phase can be described as Web 2.5. In this article, the author attempts to define what Web 2.5 is concerning informatology, along with identifying the potential future challenges of information management in this area and the new iteration of digital development, namely Web 3.0 or web3.
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Why is it important?
In this article, I attempt to define what Web 2.5 is in relation to IT, along with identifying the potential future challenges of information management in this field and the new iteration of digital development, Web 3.0 or web3. This allows for distinguishing the differences between Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and, what is in between.
Perspectives
I believe that this article can show in a simple way the differences between the successive stages of Internet development. It was a great pleasure to be able to work on this issue, which is the future of information and data science. I believe that knowledge of web3 will allow information professionals to better see the prospects and benefits associated with this phase of Internet development. In addition, perhaps it will allow more researchers to become more interested in this topic.
mgr Hanna Gawel
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie
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This page is a summary of: Web 2.5 as a safe shift from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0: A definition of Web 2.5 in informatological approach, December 2022, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.33774/coe-2022-sj2w3.
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