The symposium provides a platform to discuss the
current state of the art, share best practices, and
exchange ideas for future innovations, with a
special focus on cross-community collaboration,
international perspectives, and the operational
application of emerging technologies. Sosy2025 aims
to gain insights from both science and industry.
Solid World Recording
Solid World was held around the theme of "Solid for
Social Benefit: Delivering Shared and Public
Resources." We heard news from the Solid Team and
presentations from the PASS Project, Open Commons,
the SleepyBike Project, and Digital Flanders.
We heard from the team at the Open Data Institute
about their new stewardship of Solid, and from Ruben
Verborgh on how Solid-powered Active Wallets enable
innovative ways to share and manage data.
Solid World Recording
Solid World was held around the theme of "Solid for
Social Benefit: Delivering Shared and Public
Resources." We heard news from the Solid Team and
presentations from the PASS Project, Open Commons,
the SleepyBike Project, and Digital Flanders.
Solid Symposium was held in
Leuven, BE.
Sarven Capadisli
gave the opening keynote
Socially-aware Web
discussing
Web's core principles and architectural concepts,
emphasising both social and technical challenges,
with a focus on standardisation and implementation
efforts within
Solid.
Solid World recording Aaron Coburn updated us on news
from the
W3C's annual meeting. Jackson Morgan presented
Linked Data Objects. Davi Ottenheimer presented on
how Solid can
enable responsible AI, and a team from Northeastern
University presented on how predictive and
generative AI can leverage Solid.
Solid World was held at 11:00 a.m. EDT/1700 CEST.
There was an update on CSS, an announcement of
Inrupt's Solid hackathon winners, and presentations
from Graphmetrix and Motius.
Eventbrite.
There will be a dedicated workshop/panel session
about the Solid project at this conference,
alongside interesting people and presentations from
many like-minded projects. Location: Helsinki
The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum for
researchers, early adopters from companies and
public administration, and the community at large to
discuss the current state of the art around Solid
and exchange ideas for further developments.
Solid World recording Ruben Verborgh updated us on
the Solid W3C
Working Group, and Melissa Wood of SolidMcr
announced the creation of SolidUK. Esther de Loof of
SolidLab Flanders presented the findings from their
first annual
SOLIDMonitor report. Oz Olivo presented Inrupt's
Version
2.1 release.
An
online meetup
discussing the essential parts to make Solid apps,
and with a presentation by Chase Hunt, a contributor
to SolidOS, about getting involved in open source,
and the opportunities to join and help grow the
Solid ecosystem.
Solid World December recording Jun Zhao, Hunar Batra
and Rui Zhao from
Oxford University presented two Solid-based
applications:
Solidflix
and
Solid Calendar. Jackson Morgan presented
LDO.
We also heard about the formation of a Solid W3C
Working Group.
Solid World October recording
Eliott Behar, a privacy and human rights attorney,
Davi Ottenheimer, VP of Trust and Digital Ethics at
Inrupt, and Michiel Fierens, doctoral researcher at
SolidLab Flanders, participated in a panel
discussion on Solid and New Data Regulations.
Right to Rent, Right to Work, Pre-Employment
Screening, preventing modern slavery, DBS checks -
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EventBrite
Muze hosts a meetup about Solid, Linked Data and
Decentralized Web at MCH 2022, in Zeewolde, the
Netherlands. There will be talks and workshops on
three afternoons, starting at July 23th. If you've
got something to show or tell, or just tell us that
you're coming, please mail to
mch@muze.nl.
Solid World Recording
Presentation:
Flanders Data Utility Company Team: Hear first-hand
insight into how the Flemish Data Utility Company
wants to stimulate citizens’ trust in sharing data,
by focusing on responsible and secure data sharing.
The Data Utility Company’s Solid Pod platform is
designed to establish trusted data ecosystems on
this groundbreaking technology. The Data Utility
Company’s platform mitigates the costs and risks
associated with innovative technology, lowering the
threshold for organisations to enter the Solid
ecosystem.
Solid World Recording
Presentation:
Philippe Duchesne, DataVillage & Luk Overmeire,
VRT. DataVillage is developing a platform to perform
confidential data processing on personal data, where
end users can allow service providers to process
their data to produce derived data, while having the
guarantee that the original data will not be read by
the service provider itself. DataVillage will be
joined by VRT, the Flemish public broadcasting
company, which is using the DataVillage platform to
build a user-controlled content recommendation
service for its audience.
Solid World Recording
Presentations:
Jasmine Leonard, Solid developer tool
PodPro
Sebastien Rosset,
ActivityPods, a new kind of
architecture for web applications
which aims to reconcile the ActivityPub and Solid
standards
The Solid Editorial Team would like to increase
communication with community members who are
actively implementing Solid compliant server or
client technologies. This session is open to the
public, and we welcome everyone to attend this
session. However, in an effort to maintain focus on
the stated goals of the session, only individuals
who are actively engaged in implementing Solid
compliant server or client technologies will be
queued to speak. To actively participate, an
implementer must: 1. Be a member of the Solid
Community Group 2. RSVP in advance to
solid+feedback@theodi.org. Must be able to cite
active implementation work. Legitimate citations
include links to Github repositories, links to
product descriptions on websites, or otherwise
credible explanation of active work efforts.
Implementers are encouraged to submit questions,
issues, or topics in advance to
solid+feedback@theodi.org. This may be included in
the RSVP, or sent separately afterwards. Minutes
will be recorded, and posted to
https://github.com/solid/specification/tree/main/meetings.
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