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Notes from the 2022/01/13 Solid World Webinar.
Presentation material will appear on https://solidproject.org/events.
Agenda of this event:
Monthly updates — Tim Berners-Lee, Ruben Verborgh, Oz Olivo
Guest presentations
Sarven Capadisli, W3C Solid Community Group Chair, Editor with IETF participation.
Sarven presented the recent milestone release of Version 0.9 of the Solid Protocol, and what it means for developers.
Ruben Verborgh, Professor of decentralized Web technology at Ghent University
Ruben presented a vision on query and search across the decentralized Web, and the role that Web APIs play therein.
Links from this event:
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Tim’s Update
Recording of Tim's appearance at the Web Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw_wnmQx1aU&t=25479s
Ruben’s Update
The details of IMEC's announcement and links to various media stories: https://www.ugent.be/ea/idlab/en/news-events/news/flemish-government-7m-eur-funding-solidlab-vlaanderen.htm
Oz’s Update
Check out The Open Hospitality Network’s GitHub repo: https://github.com/OpenHospitalityNetwork/sleepy.bike/blob/main/docs/Submission.md
Visit the website: https://openhospitality.network/
Check out the app: https://sleepy.bike
Watch the demo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxIOtWg_duQ
Sarven’s Presentation
Solid Technical Reports: https://solidproject.org/TR/
Solid Protocol: https://solidproject.org/TR/protocol
Solid Specifications Repository: https://github.com/solid/specification/
Solid Specifications Chat: https://gitter.im/solid/specification/
W3C Solid Community Group: https://www.w3.org/community/solid/
Ruben’s Presentation
Read the blog post here: https://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2021/12/23/reflections-of-knowledge/
Here are Ruben’s slides: https://rubenverborgh.github.io/Web-APIs-for-decentralized-knowledge-graphs/
Ruben's 2020 paper for the Semantic Web Conference on "LDflex: a Read/Write Linked Data Abstraction
for Front-End Web Developers" https://drive.verborgh.org/publications/iswc2020-ldflex.pdf
Maria's notes
There was no Solid World for 2 months. Starting today a 30' mins networking slot is added every time.
Flanders meeting in November with TimBL and Ruben.
Great enthusiasm from the Flanders government for Solid.
imec gives 7M euros
The openhospitality app (about hosting each other free of charge) won a prize.
A new notifications protocol is coming up - feedback welcome!
Ruben on Web APIs for decentralised knowledge graphs. The ecosystem of Solid pods forms a decentralised knowledge graph. It can't be stored in one place due to volume and privacy issues. The issue is how to access, search this knowledge stored on the pods. The Web APIs offer access to remote functionality.
It is true the developers face challenges to make solid apps but the APIs are already offered y the servers. The call is now for reusable client development patters. Feedback welcome!
Universal semantics is the most important thing
Decentralised API can have performance issues but indexing and caching help with scalability questions. Decoupling how data is fetched and what info is needed makes things easier.
Please contact Maria Dimou for further information on the CERN-Solid collaboration.