This presentation was given by Pieter van Everdingen, the community manager of PLDN during a Solid session at the ECP Jaarcongres on November 14th in The Hague. PLDN supports local Solid leads in setting up Solid activities in the Netherlands in collaboration with the Solid project organization.

1. SOLID ACTIVITIES & USE CASES IN THE NETHERLANDS
PIETER VAN EVERDINGEN (PLDN/OPENINC)
#jaarcongresECP
#linkeddatanl #solid #webwewant

2. Solid activities in the Netherlands…
(with PLDN and Solid project involvement)
2018 2020Q4
2018
Q1
2019
Q2 Q3 Q4
Solid Utrecht
Dec 11
PLDN event
Jan 31
Solid Utrecht (PLDN)
Apr 9
MU 4
Jul 7
Use case 1Phase I
Solid topic 1
Use case 1
Use case 2
Solid topic 1
Use case 2
Use case 3 Use case 3
Solid Enschede
Dec 20
MU 3
Jun 11
MU 2
May 14
MU 5
Oct 8
Solid The Hague
Jun 28
Solid Amsterdam
Oct 10
HackaLOD
Nov 29-30
ECP
Jaarcongres
Nov 14

3. Solid Use cases? First ideas
1. Photo management apps (e.g. Flickr alike)?
2. Open publications apps (e.g. presentations)?
3. Smart farmer data Pods & apps (WUR-case)?
4. Sharing economy Pods & apps (e.g. Common Bike)?
5. Social Linked Beer Pods & apps (e.g. Untappd alike)?
6. Digital Play-a-LOD apps (ontology games for kids)?
7. PLDN community website (with expert profiles)?

4. Solid Use cases? First ideas
8. Reference data Pods, apps and/or lookup services
9. Open dictionaries Pods & apps?
10.Law data Pods & annotation apps?
11.Open research Pods & apps (GO FAIR & EOSC-compliant)?
12.Health & fitness data Pods & apps (MedMij-compliant)?
13.Financial data Pods & apps (e.g. Financieel paspoort-alike)?
14.Education Pods & apps for students?

5. Solid Use cases? First ideas
15.Home Pods & apps (e.g. Huiskluis/woondossier alike)
16.Social Media Pods & apps (e.g. Facebook alike)
17.Findability of Heritage collections (NDE + IDLab)
18.Local Pod providers (with e.g. additional services)
19.Development tools to make it easier to develop linked
data & Solid apps with React (Ontola.io)
20.…

6. Solid Use cases? First conclusions
Many good ideas, but activities are mostly ad-hoc and can have
different priorities over time, which threatens the speed of
development and the desired growth and adoption of Solid in the
Netherlands and worldwide
But what can we reasonably expect when we position the Solid
activities in a historical perspective of previous internet and web
developments? (see next two slides)

7. Internet growth & adoption patterns

8. Solid growth forecast (personal view)
• MIT Research project
• Inrupt
• Local communities
(e.g. PLDN + local leads)
• Global Solid
Movement
Community
Ecosystem
(internet scale)
???

9. Solid growth & adoption: Next steps

10. Solid activities: Solid sessions
Local leads & activities:
• 9 apr 2019: Solid Utrecht (Pieter van Everdingen)
• 28 jun 2019: Solid The Hague (Bart Roorda)
• 10 oct 2019: Solid Amsterdam (Jeroen van Beele)
• 20 dec 2019: Solid Enschede (Erwin Folmer)
• 30 jan 2020: Solid Amsterdam (Jeroen van Beele)
• More in 2020: Solid <Your City>? (any volunteers?)

11. Solid activities: Curriculum & challenges
We would like to work with teachers & students from:
• Universities
• Academies
• Graduate schools
• Secondary schools
• …

12. Solid activities: Development activities
We would like to work with other data and developer
communities to get Solid on the agenda of their activities
(guest presentations/workshops, etc.), e.g.:
• Front-end/back-end/full stack developers
• JavaScript/React/Angular/Vue developers
• Solid development activities at Hackathons
• …

13. Solid activities: More business focus !
We would like to work with business developers to decide
which Solid use cases are most promising for further Solid
activities and also to get more business focus next to the
technical focus we already have

14. Solid activities: More support
Use cases
Workshops
Training
Interviews
Planning &
Approach
Experiment
Requirements
Analysis
Workshops
Training
Experiment
S o l i d
R e a d i n e s s
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
Proof of
Concept
Adapted from: Erik Kentie - Exeprimenteren | Kansen Zien in de Digitale Wereld
- Productivity
- Maturity

15. Solid adoption & growth: Next steps
FROM: Experiments
TO: Sustainable solutions
???
TO: Scalable solutions

16. Solid adoption & growth: Your ideas !
Did we forget anything in the previous slides that would
help giving Solid more momentum?

17. Solid & PLDN: Websites & e-mail addresses
New Solid website & e-mail:
• https://solidproject.org/
• info@solidproject.org
PLDN website & new e-mail:
• http://pldn.nl/
• info@pldn.nl (from dec 1, 2019)
(replaces platformlinkeddatanl@gmail.com)

18. Contact
Pieter van Everdingen
info@pldn.nl (from dec 1, 2019)*
Hans van Bragt
hans.vanbragt@bdvc.nl
*: replaces platformlinkeddatanl@gmail.com
Website
www.platformlinkeddata.nl
LinkedIn-group LOD Nederland
www.linkedin.com/groups/466278
Twitter @linkeddatanl
hashtag #LinkedDataNL
Nieuwsbrief
www.pldn.nl/wiki/Nieuwsbrieven
PLDN communication channels