On 12/14/12 8:08 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:


On 13 December 2012 21:19, Kingsley Idehen <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    All,

    Experiment t Steps:

    1. Attempt to lookup the following resource URL:
    http://web.ods.openlinksw.com/~kidehen/bing-snapshot-picasso.png
    <http://web.ods.openlinksw.com/%7Ekidehen/bing-snapshot-picasso.png>
    2. Send me you preferred identifier (a URI displayed in the
    profile UI under "Connected Accounts")
    3. **Optionally** open up an account via
    <http://web.ods.openlinksw.com> <http://web.ods.openlinksw.com> --
    using whatever identification and authentication service works
    best for you (note: the profile UI has a "connected accounts" tab
    which will expose URIs to you re. next step)
    4. I'll then add the URI to the ACL protecting the resource --
    again, you don't really need to sign up for a new account to
    complete this step, I just need an identifier aligned with an
    authentication service
    5. I'll reply indicating you have access
    6. Done.

    Note, these steps can (and will be) streamlined using
    notifications services such that you end up with a variant of
    Juergen's example which I posted about at:
    https://plus.google.com/u/0/112399767740508618350/posts/MVEcEkY6ZCz .

    Without Web- and Internet-scale Linked Data this simply would be
    achievable, without opening up yet another artificial silo.


Works for me with twitter and persona

Great!

Anyone else?

All:

Basically, all you really have to do is just let me (the resource owner) know how you want to be identified. Examples would include:

1. Twitter -- http://twitter.com/<userid> e.g., http://twitter.com/kidehen
2. LinkedIn -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/<userid> e.g., http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen 3. Facebook -- http://www.facebook.com/<userid> e.g., https://www.facebook.com/kidehen
4. etc..

Basically, each of these social networking/media service providers mints a verifiable URI for its members. In many cases, these days, you can verify these URIs by testing for control over said URIs using protocols such as OpenID, OAuth etc.. Naturally, you can also leverage WebID and its WebID+TLS authentication protocol in the same manner, just by sharing your WebID with the resource owner (me).

Remember, this is a "deceptively simple" example of the power of Linked Data applied to the following problems:

1. verifiable identity
2. resource access authorization .

Also note, we are going to be releasing this Javascript control as part of our ODS social web framework project on Github.

--

Regards,

Kingsley Idehen 
Founder & CEO
OpenLink Software
Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen
Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about
LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen




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