Re: Delegated WebID vs OAuth - Was: Re: An Architecture of a Distributed Semantic Social Network

On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 01:28:41PM +0200, Olivier Berger wrote:

Olivier,

Our approach of delegated WebID access (which we discussed at the WebID meeting
on FSW2011 in Berlin) tries to push the WebID idea forward by reusing existing
WebID resources. Using OAuth would at least introduce a new protocol and we
tried to keep this as simple as possible.

I agree that OAuth is widely in use and a synergy of Oauth and WebID is an
interesting idea.

Best regards

Sebastian Tramp

> Reading your paper I was interested in one aspect of the proposal that
> deals with agents / apps that need to perform tasks on behalf of the
> user, and where you propose the use of "delegated WebIDs". You mention
> OAuth, in this part too, but I'm afraid I miss the details about the
> pros / cons of both solutions.
> 
> Of course, OAuth doesn't rely on core Semantic Web tech, but on the
> other hand, it is quite widespread now AFAICT so lots of services
> support it (including some which are Linked Data aware, such as OSLC
> compliant ones).
> 
> Is there a more detailed discussion on this topic so that I could lear
> more on this (IIRC, you mention discussions on these lists about that
> very point) ?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 14:23:32 +0200, Sebastian Tramp <tramp@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:36:36PM +0200, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> > 
> > > An interesting paper on building a social web by sebastian trap
> > > 
> > > http://goo.gl/4FQy8
> > 
> > here is a more recent one submitted to the Semantic Web journal for publication
> > in a special issue: http://svn.aksw.org/papers/2011/SWJ_DSSN/public.pdf
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > Sebastian Tramp
> > 
> > > I'm trying to collate a list of people or groups that are working on social
> > > solutions.
> > > 
> > > So far I have a rough list of about 10 projects that are strongly aligned
> > > with linked data and the read write web.
> > > 
> > > I'm very interested to hear if anyone is working on a social solution, or
> > > knows some good ones.
> > > 
> > > Please feel free to reply on, or off-list, and I'll send out a summary of
> > > everything
> > 
> > -- 
> > WebID: http://sebastian.tramp.name
> 

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