Read Write Web — Q1 Summary — 2017 [via Read Write Web Community Group]

Summary
A quiet start to 2017 as people prepare for www 2017 and ESWC.  An active
political quarter saw the inauguration of a US new president, and numerous
concerns raised about new laws regarding the privacy at the ISP level.

The Linked Open Data cloud continues to grow and has a neat update here.  There
has also been a release of the SHACL playground which allows data to be
validated according to various "shapes".

Linked Data Notifications has become a Proposed Recommendation, and will allow
users of the web to have a data inbox, and enable a whole host of use cases.


Communications and Outreach
Collaboration has started to begun with two cloud providers, nextcloud and cozy
cloud.  Hopefully this will bring read and write web standards to a wider
audience, over time.

 
Community Group
Some ideas for extending the way PATCH works has been described by TimBL.  I
found interesting the way data can be transmitted over other protocols than the
web
- When clients of listening to the same resource are in fact located physically
close, they could exchange patches through other medium like wifi or bluetooth.

- The system can evolve (under stress) to work entirely with distributed
patches, making the original HTTP server unnecessary

- The patches could be combined with hashes of versions of folders to be the
basis for a git-like version control system, or connect to git itself

Applications
There is a new test website for the openid authentication branch of node solid
server and solid client has been updated to work with this.  There have been
various fixes to rdf and solid libraries, and two new repositories for solid
notifications and solid permissions.

Good work has continued on rabel, a program for reading and writing linked data
in various formats.  In addition the browser shimmed apps on solid-ui,
solid-app-set continue to improve.  Finally, *shameless plug*, I am writing a
gitbook on a skinned version of node solid server, bitmark storage, which hopes
to integrate solid with crypto currencies, creating self funding storage.


Last but not Least...

On the topic of crypto currencies, I'm very excited about a draft paper released
on semantic block chains.  There was some buzz generated around this topic and
hopefully will feature in a workshop next quarter.



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