On 8/7/13 5:55 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote:
Thanks Kingsley. I agree with all that, but…On 7 Aug 2013, at 02:07, Kingsley Idehen<[email protected]> wrote:>On 8/6/13 5:58 PM, Hugh Glaser wrote:>>Actually, this whole thing seems to me (I now realise) nothing to do with WedID per se.> >WebID is just a moniker for an HTTP URI that denotes an Agent. It's more compact that saying "Personal HTTP URI" or "Agent HTTP URI" etc.. > >In addition, a WebID can be used with a variety of authentication protocols. The thinking behind the WebID+TLS protocol simply boils down to using TLS which is widely implemented across existing user agents. >>>It is about creating and editing FOAF files.> >Yes! It is basically a showcase for web-like structured data endowed with machine-comprehensible entity relationship semantics aka. RDF based Linked Data.I'm not really talking about showcases - I want to be beyond that. I want tools that let me give this stuff to my friends at home, so it gets used! Best Hugh
So I just used the wrong word, I mean the very same thing as you've outlined above.
When I use words such as demo, showcase, dogfood etc., I actually mean: putting this stuff to practical use.
The shared Turtle document exercise is an example of how this technology addresses a real headache (in the form of crowd-sourced data curation). It demonstrates utilization of Linked Data as a mechanism for Web-scale verifiable identity to which ACLs and sophisticated data access policies can be applied :-)
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