Solid is an exciting new decentralized hosting project led by Prof. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.
The project aims to radically change the way web applications work today, improving personal data ownership & privacy.
- List of Resources
Docs
- Solid MIT - What is Solid?
- Solid Docs - Getting started!
- Solid Github - Re-decentralizing the web. (project directory)
- Solid Specs - The Solid spec and architecture.
- Solid Wikipedia - Solid (Social Linked Data) is a web decentralization project.
- Data Browser Userguide - Userguide for Solid's default data browser.
- Solid Tutorial - Make a Solid app on your lunch break!
- Linked Data API - Docs for the rdflib.js Linked Data API.
- Social Apps PDF - A paper on Solid for Social Web Apps.
- Solid Hacks Ebook - Melvin Carvalho's coding gitbook for Solid.
- Freecodecamp Intro - What Solid is, and how to get started with it.
- W3C Wiki - Solid wiki.
- Linked Data Primer - Tim's overview on linked data.
Media
- Tim's TED Talk 2009 - Tim's enthusiastic presentation on 'Linked Data'.
- Tim's Mozfest 2018 presentation - Tim speaks at MozFest 2018 with Q&A.
- Tim & Ruben Verborgh with Q&A - Decentralized Web Summit 2018 presentation (@ 4:59:30)
Articles
- The Project Solid as a Road Assembling Itself on the Go - Nov 6th 2018 by Teodora Petkova.
- Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web - Dec 20th 2017 in-depth overview by Ruben Verborgh.
- List of Sites
Community
- Gitter Chat - Solid live chatroom.
- Solid Community - The official Solid Community Forum!
- Reddit - Solid subreddit.
- W3C hosted group - Official Solid development group.
- RSS - Solid RSS feed.
- Q&A - Stackoverflow tagged queries.
Corporate
- Solid Inc - The company tasked with helping Solid’s adoption and success.
- List of Software
Open Source
- Solid's Node Server - Solid server on top of the file-system in NodeJS.
- Solid Panes - A set of core solid-compatible apps based on solid-ui.
- Linked Data API - rdflib.js - the Linked Data API for JavaScript.
- Safe Network Backend - Safe Network backend for Solid apps.
- List of Projects
Apps
- MarkBook.org - A bookmarking app using Solid. Live Userguide
- Solid Chess - A decentralized chess app build on top of Solid. Live
Editors
- Solid IDE - Solside, an editor and file manager for Solid data stores. Live
- Sparql Fiddle - Run SPARQL queries & procedures from command line or browser Live
- Warp LDP - Warp, the linked data file manager. Live
- Combo File Editor - Solid Editor based on Warp/Solside. Live
- Spoggy4 - A visualizer/editor for semantic info and Solid filesystems.
Viewers
- Profile Viewer - A React app to view and browse Solid WebID Profiles. Live
- List of Pods
About Pods
- Intro on Pods - What are Pods?
Find Pods
- Get a POD! - Grab a Pod and WebID here!
- Join Solid - Starting pod.
- Test Space - Testing pod.
- Authing.cn - Another pod.
Start Pods
- POD Server Setup - Step-by-step instructions for Linux.
- Misc Links
Related
- RDF JavaScript Libraries - W3C RDFJS Community Group.
- RDF-ext - RDF Packages supporting the rdf-ext interface.
- Simple RDF - The simplest RDF library "ever".
- Fetch API - Provides an interface for fetching resources, including across a network.
- RemoteStorage.js - A library for storing user data locally in the browser.
- Trellis LDP - Trellis is a platform for building scalable Linked Data applications.
- Web Ontology Language - OWL is a knowledge representation, a way to describe taxonomies ..and classification networks, essentially defining the structure of knowledge for various domains.
Discussions
- HN Topic 1 - How Solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web? (https://medium.com/@shevski/how-solid-is-tims-plan-to-redecentralize-the-web-b163ba78e835)
- HN Topic 2 - The man who created the web has some regrets. (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets)
- HN Topic 3 - Solid aims to radically change the way web applications work (https://solid.mit.edu/)
- HN Topic 4 - Solid – Reshape the web as we know it (https://solid.inrupt.com/)