OSLO inspiration session: Rethinking personal data

People choose where they store
every single piece of data they produce.

They can grant apps and people access
to very specific parts of their data.

Separating app and storage competition
drives independent innovation.

Solid is not a company or organisation.
Solid is not (just) software.

• Solid is an ecosystem
  • standards enable interoperability
• Solid is a movement
  • shifting the app builder mindset
• Solid is a community
  • different people, companies, and organisations

Anyone can build or host
software for Solid.

• a server at home and/or
  at your workplace
• rent server space
• use one of the
  free community servers

The Solid server acts as a data pod
that stores and guards your data.

• a regular Web server
  • with support for access control
  • with support for Linked Data
• application-agnostic
  • build any application
  • application-specific logic resides in clients
• just like your website
  • your data can be opened with any app

A typical data pod can contain
any data you create or need online.

• profile 👤
• photos 🖼
• comments 🗣
• likes 👍
• … ✨

Solid clients are browser or native apps
that read from or write to your data pod.

• you give apps permission
  • choose very precisely what they can access
• friends give you permission
  • choose very precisely what you can access
• apps deliver a unified experience
  • browse your friends’ pictures along with yours

Any app you can envision,
you can build with Solid.

• calendar 📅
• social feed 👥
• photo sharing 📸
• conference organization system 🎤
• … ✨

Data-level interoperability is key
for Solid applications.

• Linked Data
• vocabularies
• data shapes
• queries with universal semantics