Andrei Sambra & Nicola Greco
MIT
Solid
Data ownership in the age of silos
State of the art (cloud)
Multiple silos...
Problems
Different APIs everywhere
No interoperability
Zero control over data
What the heck is identity?
Principles
Standard API
Interoperability!
Control over data
Online identity
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
Standardize everything
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!
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!
Source: http://helpwiththetoughquestions.com/
https://github.com/solid/
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Andrei Sambra - @therealdeiu
Nicola Greco - @nicolagreco
MIT
https://github.com/solid/
Solid -- Data ownership in the age of silos
By Nicola Greco
