Re: urn:solid: for prototyping predicates

Dear all,

On 25/05/2025 08:54, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> čt 22. 5. 2025 v 15:32 odesílatel Christoph Braun <braun3@fzi.de> napsal:
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     [...]
>
>     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.

It is lovely indeed.
In particular, because every developer who wants to build a Solid app 
can go to solidcommunity.net and create a Pod there.
Getting a (hosted) Pod is not a problem.
If afraid of tying the vocabulary to a Pod Provider's domain, use w3id 
or purl to re-direct whereever the vocabulary is currently hosted.

For development, just using a test account on solidcommunity.net is much 
more convenient than hosting you own local Pod server instance.
 From my project experience (see presentation at Solid World [1]), a 
developer of a Solid app creates a test account for testing their app at 
some point anyway instead of going through the hassel of learning how to 
setup a local Pod.

> Even experienced folks often don’t run their own Pod infra. [...]
That's exactly the point here.

Using a hosted Pod to publish your vocabulary is easy.
*Lovely!*

No need to use URNs instead of URIs.

Cheers
Christoph

[1] https://youtu.be/fSRe-fyshmQ?si=fGNSRgaYyWHmBVRY&t=2779