This presentation was given by Pieter van Everdingen on February 12 at Seven in Utrecht during a KNVI-PLDN Solid Lecture.

1. KNVI-PLDN LEZING
JE PERSOONLIJKE DATA
BEHEREN MET SOLID
PIETER VAN EVERDINGEN
(PLDN/OPENINC)
12-2-2020
#linkeddatanl #solid

2. EERSTE ERVARINGEN MET SOLID –
PIETER VAN EVERDINGEN (PLDN/OPENINC)

3. Solid…, data pod examples
For different contexts/purposes:
• https://pietervaneverdingen.inrupt.net/profile/card#me
(personal data I would like to share with e.g. friends)
• https://openinc.solid.community/profile/card#me
(business data I would like to share with e.g. advisors)
• https://pldn.solid.community/profile/card#me
(community data I would like to share with community members)

4. Solid…, a short demo

5. FIRST: GET A SOLID DATA POD

6. Comments for this screen
Click on the GET A POD
button on this screen

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Choose which Pod provider is
allowed to host your Pod (but
you can also install a Solid
server yourself to host your
own Pods and to be in control
yourself totally)

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Click on the Register button
to create a Pod

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Create a unique Pod name
that will serve as your WebID
and enter a password and an
e-mail address

10. NEXT: CONFIGURE YOUR DATA POD

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This the home page for one
of my test Pods (and you are
looking at the current version
of the GUI)

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You start with an empty Pod
profile, where you can drag
an image into the head icon
and fill in the entry fields in
the form for the data that
you want to share in public

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Drag and drop an image from
e.g. your hard drive to the
head icon

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When you click the Profile
link on the home page of my
POD then see the (linked)
data for my Profile`with e.g.
my profile characteristics and
the apps that I trust
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Confirm this drag and drop
action to copy the image

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A Pod profile with an image
and some test data

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You can also drag http links
to screen sections with a
bull’s eye sign, e.g. for web
sites and persons (with a
known WebID) you want to
connect to your profile

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An example of the XML
source data of a profile

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When you start with a new
Pod then your storage will be
empty

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You start with an empty public
folder in a Pod.
The settings folder is more of
interest for Solid app developers
(e.g. how are indexes used)

20. THEN: START USING SOLID APPS

21. Solid…, app examples
First versions of apps I’ve used:
• https://markbook.org
(a bookmark app)
• https://vincenttunru.gitlab.io/poddit/
(another bookmark app)
• https://pixolid.netlify.com
(a photo management app)
Interoperable Solid apps !!

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You first have to authenticate
yourself with your WebID and
password before you can
start using a Solid app

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And you have to grant access
to your Pod before an app
can use your Pod data and
can add data to your Pod

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Then you see that Mark Book
is aware of all the bookmarks
that were created by Poddit
and Mark Book! (these two
Solid apps are interoperable)

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And you see that Poddit is
also aware of all the
bookmarks that I have
created with two
interoperable apps

26. Created by Mark Book!
Created by Poddit
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In the bookmarks.ttl file you
see 3 bookmarks that were
created with 2 different
bookmark apps: Poddit and
Mark Book!

27. Layered compatibility via
compatible data shapes !
which is the basis for adding
more related Linked Data
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Here you see a first example
of layered compatibility for
the bookmark data shapes
that were created by two
interoperable Solid bookmark
apps

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In the photo management
app Pixolid, I’ve upload one
picture (from the Solid
Utrecht session), which I’ve
made public (you can also
share pictures with a friend
that is known in your Pod)

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I’ve liked it and I’ve created
one sample comment

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And in my public folder I see
a pixolid sub folder

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And when open the pixolid
folder then you see the
modular folder structure of
the data in this folder (the
images, comments and likes)

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The picture of the Solid
Utrecht session

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The comment that I’ve added
to the picture, etc.
The pattern of storing data is:
Who added when, data of a
certain type, with/without a
relationship to data that was
already stored in the Pod and
with more/less additional
metadata details (pattern is
often activity stream alike)

34. Comments for this screen
And the like that was added
to the picture

35. END OF FIRST DEMO

36. Solid…, where to start?
https://solidproject.org/

37. Solid…, where to ask questions?
https://forum.solidproject.org

38. Solid…, where to chat?
https://gitter.im/solid

39. Solid…, on GitHub
https://github.com/solid/

40. Solid…, where to find apps?
https://solidproject.org/use-solid/apps

41. Solid…, how to start developing apps?
https://solidproject.org/for-developers/apps

42. Solid…, where can you find events?
https://solidproject.org/events

43. Solid & PLDN: Who to contact?
New Solid website & e-mail:
• https://solidproject.org/
• info@solidproject.org
PLDN website & new e-mail:
• http://pldn.nl/
• info@pldn.nl