Re: WebID Integration Usecases with Semantic Web

On 28 April 2013 22:53, Dileepa Jayakody <dileepajayakody@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Mo for the explanation.
> As you have mentioned, WebID's architecture is very similar to the
> inherent architecture of the web itself.
> WebID has been evolving since 2004/2005, but compared to OpenID, the
> adoption of WebID is not very high, if I may say. Please correct me if I'm
> wrong. Is this due to constant changes in the WebID spec, or due to lack of
> fully-fledged implementations of WebID?
> Thoughts are welcome..
>

I think until recently WebID has been perceived to be closely coupled to
X.509 client certificates.  And some that have evaluated X.509 client
certificates perceive the user experience to be a challenge to present to a
mass audience.

In truth the advantages of WebID are in the loose coupling of concepts,
universality, and adherence to web standards.

The community have has started to present the ideas as more modular now,
including splitting out the specifications.

I think the main thing is that there are not too many people building apps
right now for WebID but a relatively large number of people focusing on
completing the infrastructure.  So 1-2 developers can probably make a
noticeable difference! :)


>
> Thanks,
> Dileepa
>
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Mo McRoberts <Mo.McRoberts@bbc.co.uk>wrote:
>
>>
>> On 28 Apr 2013, at 19:01, Dileepa Jayakody <dileepajayakody@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks a lot Melvin for your reply.
>> > I will further read about WebID docs to gather more knowledge.
>> > I took a look at myprofile project, created my own WebID :
>> https://my-profile.eu/people/dileepa/card#me  :)
>> >
>> > Another aspect I'm looking at is, how WebID differs from existing
>> identity technologies like OpenID. Is the fundamental difference, the
>> support for linked-data and the stateless nature of WebID?
>>
>> With WebID, the only thing you need a *server* to be able to do is serve
>> static resources (it can do more, but that's all it HAS to do). The smarts
>> are essentially a facet of the crypto itself (and the fact that a thing you
>> can prove you control connects to another thing you prove you control).
>> WebID is, in effect, as distributed and decentralised as the Web itself and
>> has a very low barrier to entry.
>>
>> With OpenID, you're creating an account on a service and pointing people
>> at that (possibly in a round-about way).
>>
>> M.
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Dileepa
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Melvin Carvalho <
>> melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 28 April 2013 13:21, Dileepa Jayakody <dileepajayakody@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > My Name is Dileepa Jayakody, a Sri Lankan research student interested
>> in semantic web, linked-data and digital identity concepts. I have been
>> learning about WebID for past few days and I'm most interested about
>> possibilities of WebID integration to provide a verified digital identity
>> solution across multiple domains (SNS, email, blogs etc).
>> >
>> > I'm interested in applying for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) this year
>> and there are 2 projects which were most interesting for me. Both are from
>> Apache Stanbol project which suits my research interests on semantic web.
>> > 1. Using Semantic Concepts in Federated Social Web : STANBOL-1009
>> > 2. Entity Disambiguation for Stanbol : STANBOL-1037
>> >
>> > Welcome, sounds great!
>> >
>> >
>> > For both use-cases I find WebID an excellent option.
>> > For use-case-1, WebID can be used for federated social-web as it
>> supports a user-profile with links to friend lists, photos etc, with
>> ability to control access to such resources over social-graph.
>> > For use-case-2 'Person' disambiguation can be tacked by developing a
>> disambiguation algorithm by using WebID as a verified digital identity.
>> >
>> > Stanbol uses Apache Clerezza as a RDF engine, and AFAIK Clerezza
>> supports WebID. However when I discussed with Stanbol guys on their
>> dev-list I got to know the WebID support is currently disabled due to
>> recent changes in WebID spec and changes in jaxrs architecture.
>> >
>> > I am sure Henry Story can help with this, he's done quite a bit of work
>> with Clerzza.
>> >
>> >
>> > I would very much like to know your suggestions and ideas on
>> integrating WebID for above use-cases. Further I would like your help in
>> understanding the architecture of WebID and how I can integrate it in
>> existing systems to provide a verified digital identity.
>> >
>> > WebID is split into two architectural concepts.  One is Identity, which
>> means using an HTTP URI to denote a Person.  The other is authentication,
>> so that a server can verify that identity.  Currently there's one
>> authentication spec which documents WebID over TLS, but more are possible.
>> >
>> > A project you may also want to look at is :
>> >
>> > http://myprofile-project.org/
>> >
>> >
>> > Looking forward to your ideas.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Dileepa
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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>> From: Mo McRoberts <Mo.McRoberts@bbc.co.uk>
>> To: Dileepa Jayakody <dileepajayakody@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>, public-webid <
>> public-webid@w3.org>
>> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:25:46 +0000
>> Subject: Re: WebID Integration Usecases with Semantic Web
>>
>> On 28 Apr 2013, at 19:01, Dileepa Jayakody <dileepajayakody@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks a lot Melvin for your reply.
>> > I will further read about WebID docs to gather more knowledge.
>> > I took a look at myprofile project, created my own WebID :
>> https://my-profile.eu/people/dileepa/card#me  :)
>> >
>> > Another aspect I'm looking at is, how WebID differs from existing
>> identity technologies like OpenID. Is the fundamental difference, the
>> support for linked-data and the stateless nature of WebID?
>>
>> With WebID, the only thing you need a *server* to be able to do is serve
>> static resources (it can do more, but that's all it HAS to do). The smarts
>> are essentially a facet of the crypto itself (and the fact that a thing you
>> can prove you control connects to another thing you prove you control).
>> WebID is, in effect, as distributed and decentralised as the Web itself and
>> has a very low barrier to entry.
>>
>> With OpenID, you're creating an account on a service and pointing people
>> at that (possibly in a round-about way).
>>
>> M.
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Dileepa
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Melvin Carvalho <
>> melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 28 April 2013 13:21, Dileepa Jayakody <dileepajayakody@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > My Name is Dileepa Jayakody, a Sri Lankan research student interested
>> in semantic web, linked-data and digital identity concepts. I have been
>> learning about WebID for past few days and I'm most interested about
>> possibilities of WebID integration to provide a verified digital identity
>> solution across multiple domains (SNS, email, blogs etc).
>> >
>> > I'm interested in applying for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) this year
>> and there are 2 projects which were most interesting for me. Both are from
>> Apache Stanbol project which suits my research interests on semantic web.
>> > 1. Using Semantic Concepts in Federated Social Web : STANBOL-1009
>> > 2. Entity Disambiguation for Stanbol : STANBOL-1037
>> >
>> > Welcome, sounds great!
>> >
>> >
>> > For both use-cases I find WebID an excellent option.
>> > For use-case-1, WebID can be used for federated social-web as it
>> supports a user-profile with links to friend lists, photos etc, with
>> ability to control access to such resources over social-graph.
>> > For use-case-2 'Person' disambiguation can be tacked by developing a
>> disambiguation algorithm by using WebID as a verified digital identity.
>> >
>> > Stanbol uses Apache Clerezza as a RDF engine, and AFAIK Clerezza
>> supports WebID. However when I discussed with Stanbol guys on their
>> dev-list I got to know the WebID support is currently disabled due to
>> recent changes in WebID spec and changes in jaxrs architecture.
>> >
>> > I am sure Henry Story can help with this, he's done quite a bit of work
>> with Clerzza.
>> >
>> >
>> > I would very much like to know your suggestions and ideas on
>> integrating WebID for above use-cases. Further I would like your help in
>> understanding the architecture of WebID and how I can integrate it in
>> existing systems to provide a verified digital identity.
>> >
>> > WebID is split into two architectural concepts.  One is Identity, which
>> means using an HTTP URI to denote a Person.  The other is authentication,
>> so that a server can verify that identity.  Currently there's one
>> authentication spec which documents WebID over TLS, but more are possible.
>> >
>> > A project you may also want to look at is :
>> >
>> > http://myprofile-project.org/
>> >
>> >
>> > Looking forward to your ideas.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Dileepa
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mo McRoberts - Analyst - BBC Archive Development,
>> Zone 1.08, BBC Scotland, 40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G51 1DA,
>> MC3 D4, Media Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TQ,
>> 0141 422 6036 (Internal: 01-26036) - PGP key CEBCF03E
>>
>>
>>
>