Third-Party Control Considered Harmful

self publishing entails that an actor can register identifiers for their content, shape and store data where they have access to, set access control policies, and use preferred applications to achieve them.

The core design components 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.

What can be significant?

What is the "smallest" unit of communication?

Can it be identified? Discoverable? Findable?

Only available to a subset of humans? machines?

Publicly archivable?

How can data/information/knowledge be shaped? (interactive?)

Interoperable? Based on open consensus? or was it actually post-facto interoperable?

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Unauthorised tracking user activities, profiling, ad networks, data brokers..

Behavioural data combined with third-party identifiers.. privacy? what privacy?

• Resources are actively blocked, rate limited, restrictive reuse..
• Proprietary data models and access methods.
• Resources include ads; subscription forms; publisher branded; changed whenever..
• Persistent identifiers resolving to landing webpages..

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.

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 – Design Issues 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.

For ~100 USD/year, personal website:

• unlimited individually-controlled resources
• universally accessible, interoperable
• publicly archivable
• reusable by standards-compliant applications
• social interactions
• privacy respecting