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Agenda
- Update on the ODI stewardship of Solid
- Highlights of progress made in the Solid Community group
- Highlights of work in the Solid Practitioners group - including the Solid Catalog
- Updates on progress in the Linked Web Storage Working group
- Presentations: Frederik Byl
Presentations
At the final Solid World of the year we are delighted to welcome Frederik Byl from Vito who will be presenting on two innovative projects.
We Are - a citizen-centric approach to health data sharing
In the We Are platform, health data is approached from a citizen-centric perspective, bringing fragmented data that tell a story about a person's health and well-being together in personal data lockers. To be able to use and share this data, access and access management services are built around the central SOLID technology architecture layer. To make sure people aren't overburdened by access requests, and to put people really central in this technology approach, there is a final governance layer, focusing on the ethical and legal screening of applications and organisations requesting access to a person's data.
WellData - a personal data space for preventive health
In this talk we will showcase how the We Are platform works in practice: the WellData project set up a preventive health personal data space. Not only are applications connecting to the underlying SOLID architecture, but they also exchange and re-use data. We will look at the set-up of the personal data space, and the technical and governance challenges we encountered and solved in bringing this to practice.
Speakers
Presenter: Frederik Byl, Vito is a software engineer with experience in designing and implementing data-driven applications. He is co-developer and architect of the We Are project, which aims to create a health data platform that empowers citizens to share and activate their health data. He is passionate about translating complex technical challenges into practical solutions, with a focus on simplicity and robustness.
Solid Practitioners Group update: Jeff Zucker has been a close to full time volunteer with Solid since fall of 2018; has created a dozen Solid apps and libraries; served as co-author of the WebID Profile specification, moderator of the Solid Forum, moderator and admin of the Solid chat rooms, and founder and current co-chair of the Solid Practitioners Group. He previously served on the Solid Team as a Creator and as a co-chair of the DEI task group. Jeff's training is as a cultural anthropologist and prior to Solid he worked for many years as a consultant on combined IT/social issue projects with UNICEF, UNESCO, four other U.N. agencies and close to 40 NGOs involved in human rights and environmental protection work. He was an early adopter of the first web and created ten of the first few thousand websites.
Community Group update: elf Pavlik is co-chair of W3C Solid Community Group, CG representative to Solid-ODI AC, co-editor, and co-author of various CG reports, and maintainer of https://sai.js.org. Before focusing on Solid, he participated in various other W3C Community Groups, including RDF/JS and Hydra API. Between 2014 and 2015 he participated as an invited expert in W3C Social Web Working Group. Pavlik focuses on application interoperability, authorization, notifications, and develops sample implementations in typescript. For TPAC 2024 he prepared a three-part video mini-series explaining selected aspects of Solid, it is available at the official event website.
Linked Web Storage Working group Aaron Coburn is a co-chair of the W3C Linked Web Storage working group. He edited the Solid-OIDC specification and has authored or contributed to several other specification documents related to Solid. He currently is an engineer at Inrupt, where he builds linked data software.
Chair: Jesse Wright is a passionate advocate for a Web that empowers individuals by giving them control over their own data. With a commitment to open-source and community-driven technology, Jesse has contributed significantly to the development and deployment of Solid.Jesse’s work on Solid spans several years, encompassing both volunteer and professional contributions to the project. He has developed and maintained a variety of libraries essential to the Semantic Web and Solid ecosystems, including eye-js, shaclcjs, N3.js, LDflex, and Comunica. Professionally, Jesse’s industry experience includes deploying Solid Pods for Indigenous health use cases at the Software Innovation Institute, as well as building foundational Solid infrastructure at Inrupt.As an academic, Jesse is a DPhil researcher at the University of Oxford’s EWADA group, led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt. His research revolves around designing architectures that enable decentralized agents to autonomously negotiate and make decisions, thereby establishing a logical framework for Solid. Through his academic work, Jesse has contributed to numerous W3C standards.
Definitions
Solid Practitioners Group (PG)
The Solid Practitioners Group (PG) was launched in 2023 as a hub for those putting the Solid vision into practice as consists of people actively working on projects aimed at specific real-world products using Solid. You can join the practitioners group here.
The Solid Community Group (CG) was launched in 2018 to incubate the Solid Specifications. With the Linked Web Storage Working Group (LWS) now taking on the responsibility of maturing the server specifications - the CG is working on topics around application interoperability. You can join the community group here.
Linked Web Storage Group (LWS)
The Linked Web Storage Working Group (LWS WG) was launched in 2024 to enable the development of web applications where data storage, entity authentication, access control, and application provider are all loosely coupled. This group will output official W3C Recommendations - with the same level of authority as specifications such as HTML, CSS and Verifiable Credentials.