Solid WebID Profile

This repository holds materials related to the proposed Solid WebID Profile specification.

Overview

The Solid WebID Profile specification describes the discovery process and data model of a Solid Profile, representing a social agent's identity within various usage scenarios and application-specific preferences.

Goals

The goals of this group are:

• to define a data model to express identities within a social, conceptual, and contextual relations in order enable socially-aware decentralised applications.
• to make recommendations and guidelines based on adequate implementation experience, as well as a framework for specialisation and extension of existing specifications.

Background

• Solid WebID Profiles
• Applications Discovery
• Original Interop Issue
• WebID Draft Specification
• Universal Identity for the Web

Related Work Items

• Type Indexes repo

Team

• Virginia Balseiro
• Tim Berners-Lee
• Sarven Capadisli
• Timea Turdean
• Jeff Zucker

Participation

All contributors to any Work Items must be members of the Solid CG. It’s easy to join the CG.

Anyone can join the Solid WebID Profile chat, or propose a topic for discussion during the weekly Solid Community Group meetings. The chat is also used to coordinate and communicate concrete meeting plans and agendas.

A tentative meeting slot is held open on Mondays, 15:00 UTC at https://meet.jit.si/solid-profile. Meetings are transcribed and published.

Code of Conduct

All work and communication within the Solid CG is covered by the Solid Code of Conduct as well as the Positive Work Environment at W3C: Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.