Abstract

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Autonomy & Universal Access

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Axioms URI

<blockquote id='axioms-uri' cite='https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms#uri'> <dl> <dt id='axiom-0a'>Axiom 0a: Universality 2</dt> <dd>Any resource of significance should be given a URI.</dd> <dt id='axiom-2b'>Axiom 2b: identity</dt> <dd>the significance of identity for a given URI is determined by the person who owns the URI, who first determined what it points to.</dd> </dl> <footer><cite><a rel='cito:includesQuotationFrom' href='https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms#uri' data-versionurl='https://web.archive.org/web/20190709105640/https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms' data-versiondate='2019-07-09T10:56:40Z'>Universal Resource Identifiers -- Axioms of Web Architecture</a></cite>, Tim Berners-Lee, 1996</footer> </blockquote>

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Compatibility 🤷🏽 Interoperability

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Considerations

<ul rel='cito:discusses'> <li><a href='https://solidproject.org/ED/protocol#security-considerations'>Security Considerations</a></li> <li><a href='https://solidproject.org/ED/protocol#privacy-considerations'>Privacy Considerations</a></li> <li><a href='https://solidproject.org/ED/protocol#accessibility-considerations'>Accessibility Considerations</a></li> <li><a href='https://solidproject.org/ED/protocol#internationalization-considerations'>Internationalization Considerations</a></li> <li><a href='https://solidproject.org/ED/protocol#security-privacy-review'>Security and Privacy Review</a></li> <li><a href='https://solidproject.org/ED/protocol#societal-impact-review'>Societal Impact Review</a></li> </ul> <p>How about <cite><a rel='cito:discusses' href='https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/'>Web Sustainability Guidelines</a></cite>?</p> <footer><cite><a rel='cito:citesAsAuthority' href='https://solidproject.org/ED/protocol#considerations'>Considerations</a></cite>, <a typeof='doap:Specification' rel='cito:citesAsAuthority' href='https://solidproject.org/ED/protocol'>Solid Protocol</a></footer>

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Degree of control for identifiers, data, and applications

<object width='840' type='image/svg+xml' rel='schema:image' height='480' data='https://csarven.ca/media/images/articles/degree-of-control.svg'></object> <footer><cite><a rel='cito:citesAsSourceDocument' href='https://csarven.ca/linked-research-decentralised-web#degree-of-control'>Degree of Control</a>, Linked Research on the Decentralised Web</cite>, 2019</footer>

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Identifying things

<img alt='Now! That should clear up a few things around here.' src='https://csarven.ca/presentations/media/images/larson-oct-1987.gif'></img> <footer><cite>The Far Side</cite>, 1987</footer>

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Incubation

<p>“Is it done yet?”™</p> <ul> <li>Reports are designed to allow an easy way for innovation by individuals.</li> <li><q resource='https://www.w3.org/TR/design-principles/#priority-of-constituencies' rel='cito:includesQuotationFrom' cite='https://www.w3.org/TR/design-principles/#priority-of-constituencies'>Put user needs first (Priority of Constituencies)</q>.</li> <li>Use cases, implementation experience, commitment to implement?</li> <li>Seek review, listen to social/technical doers, practitioners, researchers.</li> <li>Information flow (skewed? overloaded? blind spots?).</li> <li>Antipatterns: uninformed/casual comments, non-commitment, withholding knowledge, architecture astronomy, behaviour without Group consensus, commonswashing?</li> </ul>

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Knowledge Graph

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knowledge graph

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knowledge-graph

<span rel='schema:potentialAction' about=''><a typeof='schema:ViewAction' href='#knowledge-graph-action'>View</a></span> this presentation's <a property='schema:name' rel='schema:object' id='knowledge-graph-action' href='' about='#knowledge-graph-action'>knowledge graph</a>.

Let's make it so!

<ul> <li>Abide by community guidelines, processes, code of conduct.</li> <li>Share use cases.</li> <li>Eat your own cooking: build what you need and use it.</li> <li>Highlight emerging patterns, share implementation experience.</li> <li>Identify gaps in standardisation.</li> <li>Host storage/nodes for public good.</li> <li>Self-publish research, reviews, data...</li> <li>Use your privilege for common good.</li> </ul> <footer> <dl> <dt>Slides</dt> <dd><a href='https://csarven.ca/presentations/socially-aware-web'>https://csarven.ca/presentations/socially-aware-web</a></dd> </dl> </footer>

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protocol

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Read-Write Web

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Record Scratch 💿

<ul> <li><time>1987</time>: Commodore 64 (mostly games, typed in <abbr title='Beginners&quot; All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code'>BASIC</abbr> code to play snake 🐍)</li> <li><time>1991</time>–<time>1994</time>: got into ☎️ Bulletin Board Systems (initial online interactions 💬)</li> <li><time>1994</time>: got parent's signature ✍️ to use city's FreeNet 🕸️</li> <li><time>1994</time>–<time>2006</time>: random computing and school stuff 💤</li> <li><time>2006</time>–present: open standards development ⚒️ (mostly in <abbr title='World Wide Web Consortium'>W3C</abbr> Groups)</li> <li><time>2008</time>–<time>2010</time>: decentralised + federated social web / status updates (StatusNet)</li> <li><time>2010</time>–<time>2019</time>: academic stuff (<cite><a rel='cito:discusses' href='https://csarven.ca/linked-research-decentralised-web'>Linked Research on the Decentralised Web</a></cite> ✊)</li> <li><time>2012</time>–present: spite/fun-driven application development (<cite><a rel='cito:discusses' href='https://dokie.li/'>dokieli</a></cite>)</li> <li>?</li> <li>Profit?!</li> </ul>

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Say “Process” Again! 🔫

<ul rel='cito:citesAsAuthority'> <li><cite><a href='https://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/'>Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One</a></cite> (<abbr title='Architecture of the World Wide Web'>AWWW</abbr>)</li> <li><cite><a href='https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/'>Ethical Web Principles</a></cite> (<abbr title='Ethical Web Principles'>EWP</abbr>)</li> <li><cite><a href='https://www.w3.org/community/about/process/'>W3C Community and Business Group Process</a></cite>, <cite><a href='https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/'>W3C Process Document</a></cite></li> <li><cite><a href='https://www.w3.org/community/solid/charter/'>W3C Solid Community Group Charter</a></cite></li> <li><cite><a href='https://github.com/w3c-cg/solid/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md'>W3C Solid Community Group Contributing Guidelines</a></cite></li> </ul>

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Self-publishing

<blockquote cite='https://csarven.ca/linked-research-decentralised-web#self-publishing'><em>self publishing</em> entails that an actor can register identifiers for their content, shape and store data where they have access to, set access control[s], and use preferred applications to achieve them.</blockquote> <footer><cite><a rel='cito:includesQuotationFrom' href='https://csarven.ca/linked-research-decentralised-web#self-publishing'>Self-publishing</a>, Linked Research on the Decentralised Web</cite></footer>

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Social Implications

<blockquote cite='https://csarven.ca/linked-research-decentralised-web#addressing-social-implications'> <ul> <li>How can harassment and abuse be prevented or handled?</li> <li>How would moderation or civil discourse work?</li> <li>How can a resource prohibit or consent to be annotated at fine granularity?</li> <li>How can the conditions to annotate and notify be indicated and monitored?</li> <li>How can a resource’s annotation policy and rules be respected?</li> <li>What may be the conditions to associate different identities?</li> <li>How can domain expertise be factored in?</li> </ul> </blockquote> <footer><cite><a rel='cito:includesQuotationFrom' href='https://csarven.ca/linked-research-decentralised-web#addressing-social-implications'>Addressing Social Implications</a>, Linked Research on the Decentralised Web</cite></footer>

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Social and Technical Decisions

<p><q><del>Decisions</del><ins>Standards</ins> are made by those who show up.</q></p> <p><strong>But..</strong> it is a privilege to have the opportunity to show up.</p> <hr></hr> <p><abbr title='Not invented here'>NIH</abbr> 🙈 🙉 🙊 <abbr title='Fear, uncertainty and doubt'>FUD</abbr></p> <p>"My standard/tool/idea can beat up your standard/tool/idea..."</p>

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Socially-aware Web

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Socially-aware Web

<span rev='bibo:presents' resource='#event-presentation' rel='bibo:presentedAt' about=''></span> <p typeof='schema:Event bibo:Conference' resource='#event-presentation'> <span typeof='bibo:Conference' rev='schema:subEvent' resource='#solid-symposium-2024' rel='schema:superEvent'><a rel='schema:url' href='https://events.vito.be/sosy2024/'>Solid Symposium</a></span>, <a resource='dbr:Leuven' rel='schema:location' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuven'>Leuven</a>, <time title='2024-05-02T11:30:00Z' property='schema:startDate' datetime='2024-05-02T11:30:00Z' datatype='xsd:dateTime' content='2024-05-02T11:30:00Z'>2024-05-02</time> <span property='schema:endDate' datatype='xsd:dateTime' content='2024-05-02T12:30:00Z'></span> </p> <address> <img width='96' src='https://csarven.ca/media/images/sarven-capadisli.jpg' height='96' alt='Sarven Capadisli&quot;s avatar'></img> <span>Sarven Capadisli</span> <a rel='schema:performer' href='https://csarven.ca/#i' about='#event-presentation'>https://csarven.ca/#i</a> <span>@csarven</span> </address> <footer> <dl> <dt>Slides</dt> <dd><a rel='schema:workFeatured' href='https://csarven.ca/presentations/socially-aware-web' about='#event-presentation'>https://csarven.ca/presentations/socially-aware-web</a></dd> </dl> </footer>

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Solid Bingo

<table> <caption>The Official Solid Bingo</caption> <thead> <tr> <th>🙈</th> <th>🙉</th> <th>🙊</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Social (Web)</td> <td>Decentralised</td> <td>Control</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Process</td> <td>Standards</td> <td>Publish</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Access</td> <td>Verticals, Horizontals, Diagonals</td> <td><abbr title='Artificial Intelligence'>AI</abbr></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

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solid-symposium-2024

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URI allocation

<blockquote cite='https://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-assignment'> <p><dfn>URI allocation</dfn> is the process of associating a URI with a resource. Allocation can be performed both by resource owners and by other parties.</p> <footer><cite><a rel='cito:includesQuotationFrom' href='https://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-assignment'>URI allocation</a>, Architecture of the World Wide Web</cite></footer> </blockquote>

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URI ownership

<blockquote cite='https://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-ownership'> <p><dfn>URI ownership</dfn> is a relation between a URI and a social entity, such as a person, organization, or specification. URI ownership gives the relevant social entity certain rights, including:</p> <ul> <li>to pass on ownership of some or all owned URIs to another owner—delegation; and</li> <li>to associate a resource with an owned URI—<a href='#uri-allocation'>URI allocation</a>.</li> </ul> <footer><cite><a rel='cito:includesQuotationFrom' href='https://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-ownership'>URI ownership</a>, Architecture of the World Wide Web</cite></footer> </blockquote>

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Understanding the Medium

<blockquote cite='http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/981396559'> <p>All of man’s artifacts – whether language, or laws, or ideas and hypotheses, or tools, or clothing, or computers – are extensions of the physical human body or the mind.</p> <footer><cite><a rel='cito:includesQuotationFrom' href='http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/981396559' data-versionurl='https://web.archive.org/web/20190709111139/https://www.worldcat.org/title/laws-of-media-the-new-science/oclc/981396559' data-versiondate='2019-07-09T11:11:39Z'>Laws of Media</a></cite>, p. 93, Marshall McLuhan, 1989</footer> </blockquote> <ul> <li>👂 – ☎️ 📻</li> <li>👀 – 📄 👓 📺</li> <li>🚶– 👟 🚲 🚗 🚀</li> <li>👋 – 🔪 🧤</li> <li>👂👀 – 🕸️ – 🏙️</li> </ul>

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Web; a social machine

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What is the Solid vision?

<p><q cite='https://csarven.ca/self-review-chairing#diving-into-solid'>We are tasked to fix the Web, society, or something? Right… easy peasy.</q></p> <ul> <li>What (future) are we building?</li> <li>Is it safe, responsible, and ethical?</li> <li>Who/what might actually end-up controlling stuff?</li> <li>How can we balance public and private identities, anonymity, <abbr title='meronymity (from the Greek “mero-”, partial, and “nym”, name),a design paradigm where people can make nuanced decisions around what meronym to reveal about themselves and to whom for specific threads of discussion.'>meronymity</abbr>, ..?</li> <li>What are the ideological and technology traps?</li> <li>How do we improve the flow between research, development, .. reality.</li> <li>Can we make it so... <em>before</em> our AI overlords takeover; biodiversity collapses; societal collapse?</li> </ul>

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