State of the art (cloud)

Multiple silos...

Solid approach

What is different?

Apps no longer "run" on dedicated servers

Apps no longer require authentication

Generic, REST API for managing data (LDP)

No application logic in the server!

Main principles/goals:

Modular design - decouple everything

Build generic platforms & tools

Reshare data between applications

Build upon open Web standards

How does it work?

Solid offers decentralized:

Identity

Authentication

Access control

Generic (and RESTful) data API

Everything revolves around URIs

(especially for identity)

Load the application

Multiple data sources

App fetches data from individual sources

App providers are kept out of the loop!

API example for writing data

curl -H"Content-Type: text/turtle" \
     -H"Slug: redecentralize-2015" \
     -X POST \
     --data ' @prefix as: <http://www.w3.org/ns/...#>. 
                <> a as:Note; 
                as:content "Going somewhere".' \
     https://alice.example.org/notes/

API example for updating data

curl -H"Content-Type: application/sparql-update" \
     -X PATCH \
     --data 'DELETE DATA 
        {<> 
            <...activitystreams#content> "Going somewhere" .
        };
            INSERT DATA 
        {<> 
            <...activitystreams#content> "Going elsewhere" .
        } ' \
     https://alice.example.org/notes/redecentralize-2015

API example for deleting data

curl -X DELETE \
    https://alice.example.org/notes/redecentralize-2015

What do we stand to gain?

Source:  https://moz.com

Keep your social graph

Source: https://www.atlassian.com

Ability to add new features

Better

Governance & Democracy

New business models

HTTP 402

Now what?

Demos!

Examples

Node.js

https://github.com/linkeddata/ldnode

Golang

https://github.com/linkeddata/gold

You are the next contributor

Learn about Solid - bit.ly/solid-tutorial

Source: http://helpwiththetoughquestions.com/

https://github.com/solid/