Re: Need for a WebID FAQ

On 3/5/19 8:11 PM, Timothy Holborn wrote:
> Few Thoughts,
>
> Traditionally, with WebID - there's the published docs about WebID
> URIs (inc. FOAF) and then there is the various WebID AUTH methods,
> such as WebID-TLS, WebID-RSA and i assume somewhere WebID-OIDC  (with
> WebID-WebAuthn on the way?) 
>
> Perhaps also - there could be a lack of documentation about three things,
>
> 1. WebID's that may not use foaf (ie: twitter.com/webcivics
> <http://twitter.com/webcivics> / linkedin.com/in/ubiquitous
> <http://linkedin.com/in/ubiquitous> ) and that are not 'semantically
> enabled' or 'rww / solid' enabled?
>
> To the best of my recollection - a WebID is a URI that describes an
> Agent.  Some URIs (ie graph.facebook.com/myuri
> <http://graph.facebook.com/myuri> ) may 'speak' RDF, others may not. 
>
> 2. Intelligent Agents / WebID - where the WebID may produce dynamic
> records in a manner that interoperable supports the needs of agents in
> a dynamic manner....  
>
> or perhaps the latter conflates Solid-WebID related functions, to
> something that may be considered solid-smartAgents or some such thing?   
>
> 3.  With respect to 'privacy enhanced design', is it not true that a
> service provider may generate URIs that provide permissive access, but
> that do not otherwise identify the intended beneficiaries of that link
> unless authenticated?  ie:  a generated WebID that's used to manage
> the relations between two agents, or an agent and a class of other
> agent/s. 
>
> Noting: https://www.rogerclarke.com/ID/IdModel-1002.html  ( Figure 1:
> An Entity-Relationship Model of Identity ) Perhaps this may be
> considered something along the lines of 'endifiers'?
>
> Am i correct in thinking traditional RWW / Solid WebIDs are not
> dynamic in nature? Yet that also - from a standards point of view,
> perhaps this doesn't matter?  
>
> A related issue may also be the specificity of FOAF noting WebOfThings
> in particular: https://w3c.github.io/wot-thing-description/  and
> consequentially,
>
> a ponderance as to whether a 'web id agent' in terms of 'solid' may
> indeed need to be clarified?  and if so, what are the implications...  
>
> FWIW - there's a great deal of implicit knowledge, and in my
> observations - people seem to 'glaze over the top' of RDF, which
> in-turn becomes a greater barrier than the time currently required to
> figure out what it's about, once the importance of it is better
> understood to the agent engaged in a nuanced 'role of the observer'
> tech qualification process.. 
>
> Timo.


Hi Tim,

If we can distill to a collections of questions for the FAQ it will help
immensely.

The problem with RDF is that is generally misunderstood for a variety of
reasons. It's saving grace is that it is based on logic, so most
question and answers can be translated into a webby knowledge graph via
a FAQ.  The exercise in of itself will showcase what this is all about
and what RDF adds to the mix.

Power is never given, it is always taken. The forces that are terrified
of RDF aren't going away any time soon, so we need to get our collective
acts together and fix the fundamental issue.

In my eyes the issue boils down to:

1. Clear explanations

2. Clear terminology

3. Easy to understand examples.


1-3 are the effective way to solve the challenge at hand, collectively.


Kingsley

>
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 05:16, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com
> <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote:
>
>     All,
>
>     Recent discussions in this forum demonstrate a clear need for a more
>     dynamic FAQ system.
>
>     Here are some suggestions:
>
>     [1]
>     https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pVsDK9TGVjLGYcrJpk0hsrDun4a-zwOyQqloTxIpRi4/edit?usp=sharing
>     -- A Google Spreadsheet where content is transformed into RDF and
>     published as 5-Star Linked Data (I'll handle publication)
>
>     [2]  https://kidehen3.solid.openlinksw.com:8445/public/CoolStuff/faqs/
>     -- Data Space from a  Solid Pod
>
>     For the Google Spreadsheet, access is granted by way of request.
>
>     For the solid pod, access is granted by providing me with your
>     WebID via
>     reply to this post .
>
>     -- 
>     Regards,
>
>     Kingsley Idehen       
>     Founder & CEO
>     OpenLink Software   
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>
>     Personal Weblogs (Blogs):
>     Medium Blog: https://medium.com/@kidehen
>     Legacy Blogs: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen/
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>
>     Profile Pages:
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>     Google+: https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about
>     LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
>
>     Web Identities (WebID):
>     Personal: http://kingsley.idehen.net/public_home/kidehen/profile.ttl#i
>             :
>     http://id.myopenlink.net/DAV/home/KingsleyUyiIdehen/Public/kingsley.ttl#this
>
>

-- 
Regards,

Kingsley Idehen       
Founder & CEO 
OpenLink Software   
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