Re: urn:solid: for prototyping predicates

čt 22. 5. 2025 v 15:32 odesílatel Christoph Braun <braun3@fzi.de> napsal:

> Dear all,
>
> On 22/05/2025 11:06, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>
>
> čt 22. 5. 2025 v 9:16 odesílatel Christoph Braun <braun3@fzi.de> napsal:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> just a curious question: As a developer, have you considered just
>> publishing your vocabulary on your Solid Pod and be done with it for fast
>> prototyping?
>> I have done that in the past and that worked great. [...]
>>
>
> Yes, I have done this many times.  But the main issue with this is that
> since it is your own pod, you are unlikely to get interop with other apps.
>
> Each approach comes with trade-offs.  Perhaps we should simply list and
> tell devs the trade-offs?
>
>
> I would like to propose dogfooding our own technology.
>
> An app developer wants to build an app:
> - they search the Solid Catalog (or similar to other vocab repos [1] ) for
> suitable vocabularies
> - if they do not find a suitable vocabulary, they create a new vocabulary
> - they use their Solid Pod to host the new vocabulary
> - they Link it in/from the Solid Catalog for discovery
> - so other developers can search the Solid Catalog, discover the
> vocabulary and re-use it in their app
>

Just a small note on the idea of dogfooding vocab publishing via personal
Pods. It’s a lovely ideal, but maybe a bit too heavy for many devs.

Even experienced folks often don’t run their own Pod infra. Some lack time,
some lack confidence in the tooling (which, fair enough, still has bugs).
Hosting vocabularies this way means setting up a domain, a server,
maintaining it — and hoping others will find and trust it.

And in other W3C groups, we’ve seen that only 1–2 people typically feel
comfortable creating vocabularies. It’s genuinely hard.

So while it’s great when it works, I think we still need a DevX path that’s
lighter and faster, something like urn:solid: for quick prototyping, with
room to grow into stable URIs later.


>
> Cheers
> Christoph
>
> [1] https://lov.linkeddata.es/dataset/lov/
>