dokieli - Practising Standards

W3C Solid Community Group, Solid Practitioners, Bern, 2025-09-04

Sarven Capadisli https://csarven.ca/#i @csarven
Virginia Balseiro https://virginiabalseiro.com/#me @yesvirginia

What is dokieli?

Free and open source software.

Use cases: authoring, publishing, annotating, sharing, knowledge organisation, visualisation

Principles: user autonomy, universal access

Think modern day WorldWideWeb browser-editor or Amaya.

Why does it exist?

Frustration with scholarly communication but then general (decentralised) web publishing

To demonstrate a standards-based solution

Alignment with Solid project

Who is it for?

readers, researchers, journalists, educators and speakers, bloggers and content creators, technical authors, developers and technologists

See also: history of dokieli

• Implementing wide-range of standards to realise an authoring tool and related features.

• Challenges and opportunities

  • Conceptual: decentralised world view mental model
  • Technical: limits of standards, interop w/ other products
  • Social: working with/in/around standards developing org

• Credibility Assessments and Contextual Insights

  • Ciber Voluntarios
  • Survey - to get a sense of where people are about their knowledge and impression, e.g., security and privacy practices, view of decentralised concepts, information consumption, digital identity.
• Upcoming presentation in W3C Credible Web CG's Authentic Web Workshop series in 2025-10.
• NLnet project: Dokieli Collaboration

• Adoption, usability testing...
• Roadmap (i18n/l10n, credibility assessment, web extension, modularization, collaborative editing, e2ee encryption, mobile support, knowledge organisation)
• Collaboration, implement your idea/standard!
• Funding