Moving Forward with Agentic Linked Data

Hi everyone,

Thanks to all who’ve shown interest in the idea of Agentic Linked Data. The
conversations so far have been great!

As requested, I’ve put together a short document to gather thoughts, ideas,
and participants. It’s a living document, so feel free to jump in, add your
name, share your expertise, or propose new topics:

https://hackmd.io/@jSWt69rrQAKeUTsa_s49Qg/H16RCGRv1g

For convenience, here’s the content:
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*Agentic Linked Data*

This document is based on discussions on the Solid mailing list around
Agentic Linked Data [1]. It contains a list of participants who’ve shown
interest.

*1. Discussion Participants So Far*
Below is a list of participants with a short description of interest.
Please edit the text as desired.

   - *Melvin Carvalho*: Initiated the discussion. Interested in Agents and
   AI.
   - *Joshua Cornejo*: Experienced in ODRL and authorization architecture.
   - *Eric Jahn*: Interested in agent roles and permissions.
   - *Aad Versteden*: Integrates AI and Linked Data in semantic.works.
   - *Sindhu Raju*: Focuses on personal data management and consumer use
   cases.
   - *Matt Taylor*: Consultant in ethical tech, cautious about broad
   agentic access.
   - *Ram Mukund Kripa*: Developed privacy agents for consent management.
   - *Jesse Wright*: Highlighted the Web Agents CG.
   - *Jacob Beauchamp*: Exploring agentic learning and entity data.
   - *Knut-Olav Hoven*: Agent Linked Data.
   - *Leonard Rosenthol*: C2PA and Trust Signals.
   - *Harshvardhan J. Pandit*: Data Privacy Vocabularies (DPV).
   - *Antoine Zimmermann*: Chair of Webagents CG, knowledge transfer.
   - *Kurt Cagle*: Interested in how this is evolving.
   - *Davi Ottenheimer*: Modelling Agents.
   - *Mark Lizar*: Agents, privacy, legal aspects, and DPV.

*Add your name here!*

*2. Potential Topics of Interest*
Below is a list of topics, in no particular order, that could be
interesting to work on in the future:

   - A common understanding of the term "Agent"
   - Deploying Agents to Solid Pods

*Add a topic here!*

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-solid/2024Dec/0014.html
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Next Steps:

   - We’ll consolidate ideas and propose a direction in the next *2 weeks*.
   - Identify topics of interest and who’s keen to explore them further.
   - Liaise with the Web Agents CG.
   - Talk to folks in the Solid CG about structuring this (e.g., forming a
   Task Force).

Please feel free to edit the document with your thoughts—we’ll tidy things
up and summarize in the coming weeks.

Looking forward to an *Agentic 2025!*

Best wishes,
Melvin