imec supports the W3C RCH WG

[RubenVerborgh]

imec supports the W3C Working Group on Linked Data Signatures.

Our KNoWS research team has focused strongly on transforming, publishing, and accessing data in decentralized environments. Provenance is not sufficient for keeping track of whether information can be trusted; we need to provide the ability for publishers to sign data such that it can be proven that certain data is authentic.

In particular, for our work within the Solid ecosystem, we see a necessity for this technology and already had this on our own roadmap. If we want citizens to be in control of their own data, it should be possible for authorities to write signed data into citizens' data vault, such that those citizens then can share that data with other parties of their choice in a trusted manner. In particular, we are also interested in subsetting, such that parts of signed Linked Data set can also be exchanged with trust.

We want to contribute to writing, editing, and implementing this specification.

[iherman]

Hey @RubenVerborgh (long time no seen...)! Thanks!

[pchampin]

Dear @RubenVerborgh, the proposed charter has been substantially changed since you submitted your expression of support. More specifically, its scoped has been narrowed down, to address some concerns raised in the Semantic Web community. See also Ivan Herman's explanation of those changes on the SebWeb mailing list.

We kindly ask you to review the new version, and either

• renew your expression of interest (by a simple reply to this thread), or
• to close this issue if you do not wish to renew it.

Thanks in advance

[RubenVerborgh]

I am renewing our expression of interest. Thanks @pchampin and @iherman!

[pchampin]

For the sake of clarity, editing the title to match the new name of the WG...