Enabling a Socially-Aware Scholarly Ecosystem

Three architectural bases of the Web:

• Identification (URI)
• Interaction (HTTP)
• Data Formats (resource representations)

Axiom 0a: Universality 2

Any resource of significance should be given a URI.

Axiom 2b: identity

the significance of identity for a given URI is determined by the person who owns the URI, who first determined what it points to.

Data on the Web should not be locked in to particular systems or be only readable by the applications which created it. Users should be free to switch between applications and share data between them.

• Autonomy; any resource can have an Inbox anywhere
• Identifiable unit; notifications have URIs
• Reusable; a notification can contain any data; use any vocabulary
• Separation of concerns; sender, consumer, receiver

Forces

Actor

Content

Accessibility

Applicability

Functions

Registration

Awareness

Certification

Archiving

We have an ocean of standards for the Open Web Platform to choose and play with.

What are the characteristics of Web specifications for forces and functions in scientific communication?

Notifications about scholarly activities (articles, annotations, citations..)

• A notification MUST conform to one of the specified data shapes;
• MUST refer to Linked Data resources;
• MUST refer to free and publicly accessible resources.

• Choose personal data storage and identities on the Web;
• Use interoperable applications;
• Resource-centric access controls
• ...

What should The Solid Ecosystem be like? WIP!

Panels working on the fundamentals.