Re: Need for a WebID FAQ

On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 11:28, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:

> 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 /
> 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 ) 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.
>

cheers.

It might take a week to turn it around, thinking cap is on.


>
> Kingsley
>
>
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 05:16, Kingsley Idehen <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,
>>
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> --
> Regards,
>
> Kingsley Idehen 
> Founder & CEO
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