App that lists tooling and apps

jeswr commented 2 years ago

I mentioned this idea in a meeting with @phochste a little while ago.

Pitch

The goal here is for the SOLID project to 'eat its own dogfood' by having an app/interface in which users can can see which developer tooling & apps exist within the ecosystem.

Long term - I would envision this to be an 'app store' for SOLID apps and a wiki for developer tooling/sdks.

Concretely:

There exists an ontology with which apps and tooling are described
The data is published and maintained in a sustainable way
Developers are incentivised to keep an up-to-date record of their work (or this can be entirely automated for them by scraping data from wherever they are doing their work on github/gitlab etc.)

Desired solution

There is an interface to view apps and developer tooling within the ecosystem (I'd imagine this to be a minimal UI that makes use of a Comunica Configuration with Link-Traversal (to discover app/sdk metadata) and Reasoning (to infer the categories that the apps/SDKs fall into)

Acceptance criteria

I want to see a 'solid app store' where

Users can search for SOLID Apps to view edit their POD. This should include the ability to have tags to search by (health, games, social etc.). For bonus points - customize search results based on user profile (apps could include data about whether they are customized for a specific demographic - for instance there may be apps targeted for specific health conditions)
Developers can see which tooling already exists (I've seen several things re-invented in the space; such as 5 very similar tools to generate typescript bindings for ontology namespaces)

Pointers

TODO

Scenarios

TODO

pheyvaer commented 2 years ago

I see two challenges here actually: 1) Discovering apps and 2) discovering developer tools. I think it would make sense to split them up.

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pheyvaer commented 2 years ago

We are working on the app at https://github.com/KNowledgeOnWebScale/solid-app-store/ The first version should be ready by 2022-08-05.

pheyvaer commented 2 years ago

The code of first version of our app store is ready. You can try a demo version to test it out yourself. There are also shapes for how information about the apps should be published. Users can search for apps based on a search term and category.

pheyvaer commented 2 years ago

@RubenVerborgh Did you already have the chance to check if this one is completed?

RubenVerborgh commented 1 year ago

Looking really good, thanks a bunch!

What I'd still like is that different data sources can be plugged into the app; it's good as a general principle on Solid apps. But that's more than okay for now!

pheyvaer commented 1 year ago

You find the report for this challenge here.

SolidLabResearch / Challenges