Safe-Search, bringing content discovery to the SAFE network

happybeing · February 1, 2018, 2:42pm

@AndyAlban this is great news

I’d like to suggest you and @Shane consider adoption of LinkedData/RDF for content storage and public indexing, and schema.org use in content creation.

Using LinkedData makes the separation between app and data much wider - opening up the content to more and different kinds of app, at the same time as enhancing the value of the content by adding semantics and RDF rules (for validation I think).

I suggest at some point you (and others) could get together and talk to the Solid team to get their thoughts on how to do this - one now works on the Qwant search engine.

Meanwhile I’m making a portability layer that will allow SAFE and SOLID apps to work on either platform if they use LDP (Linked Data Platform) for storage operations. There’s an API ready to look at when you want, but I haven’t implemented the storage operations yet.

UPDATE: Related to my suggestion that developers consider LinkedD/RDF for increasing interoperability and usefulness of the data created by SAFE apps, this just appeared in the Solid chat: Solid Application Data Discovery

github.com

solid/solid/blob/main/proposals/data-discovery.md#listed-type-index

# Solid Application Data Discovery

The following describes application data discovery in the Solid framework
using HTTP link following aka "follow your nose". This should not be
confused with [Application Configuration
Discovery](https://github.com/solid/solid/tree/master/proposals/app-discovery.md)
or [Storage
Discovery](https://github.com/solid/solid-spec/blob/master/solid-webid-profiles.md#storage-discovery).

**Note:** The Type Registry is mainly intended as a Library discovery mechanism.
We recommend that coarse-grained library types are registered (usually types
that match containers as opposed to every RDF Class written by an app).

Specifically, the Type Registry provides a way for a client application to
discover where a user keeps data relevant to this app, without either:

a. Prompting the user to select the location of every relevant instance or
  container, or
b. Scanning through the entire dataspace/root storage of the user.

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