User stories and use cases for the Linked Web Storage (LWS) spec.
Linked Data - Design Issues
The Semantic Web isn't just about putting data on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data. With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data.
The local-only web
In this post, I explore the potential of the File System Access API to create local-only web experiences. I discuss how this API, combined with tools like Logseq, allows for on-device data storage outside the browser sandbox. While exciting, I also acknowledge the current limitations, such as the need to re-grant file access on refresh, the lack of a visual indicator for local-only sites, and the difficulty of preventing data exfiltration entirely. Despite these challenges, I believe this area holds significant potential and deserves further exploration.
@dasl/weasl - npmx
Warehouse that's Extensible for Arbitrary Structures & Links (WEASL) — @dasl/weasl — DASL store
surrealdb/surrealdb
A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web
Timeline
Thinking Machines Inc. develops a new Internet protocol dubbed WAIS. Users can download a WAIS client to search through an array of distributed servers and access the documents stored there. The protocol supports fuzzy searching, custom tailored results, and decentralized data storage, but ultimately loses out to the web.
<i>Webstrates</i>: Shareable Dynamic Media
Shareable Dynamic Media is our vision for an interactive computing environment that blurs the distinction between documents and applications, characterized by three key properties: malleability, so that users can appropriate and repurpose media in ...
WDC - RDFa, Microdata, and Microformat Data Sets
More and more websites have started to embed structured data describing products, people, organizations, places, and events into their HTML pages using markup standards such as Microdata, JSON-LD, RDFa, and Microformats. The Web Data Commons project extracts this data from several billion web pages. So far the project provides 12 different data set releases extracted from the Common Crawls 2010 to 2023. The project provides the extracted data for download and publishes statistics about the deployment of the different formats.
A Brief Overview
A Brief Overview of Webstrates # This is an updated copy of the 2019 Medium article “A Brief Overview of Webstrates.” Introduction # We’ve very quickly gotten used to real-time collaborative software on the Web. We can write together in Google Docs, make interface mockups in Figma, edit computational notebooks in Observable, and we can share our documents simply by copying a URL. We’ve also gotten used to applications working across our devices.
Who Shapes Web Standards? Uncovering the Main Topics of Interest in the W3C
A Web of Data
Thoughts on making a "Web of Data" instead of a "Web of Pages", and how that might let us take a step away from the dominance of large, complicated browsers.
MICROCOSM: An Open Hypermedia Environment for Information Integration.
This report examines open hypermedia systems, and argues that such systems provide users with richer and more diverse ways to access and integrate information from large and dynamic data sets in a distributed, heterogeneous environment. In particular, the enhanced Microcosm model for open hypermedia is examined, and the ways in which it provides such an environment are discussed. The paper continues by investigating the advantages and the short comings of this model and identifies areas in which further work must be completed before such systems can become widely adopted, in particular the granularity of link anchors, editing, and version control. Possible solutions to these problems are presented and discussed.
LinkML – Bring structure to your data.
An open framework that simplifies authoring, validating, and sharing data — providing an accessible platform for interdisciplinary collaboration and a reliable way to define and share data semantics.
The disconnect between the social filesystem and web pages. - Chris's Corner
A proposal for opening AT URIs
DASL — Data-Addressed Structures & Links
A small set of simple, standard primitives to work on content-addressed data.
The smallest permissioned data shape: a bookmarks space with a member list that never grows past me. Same bookmark record the atmosphere already uses, same write path, different address. URIs, scopes, tokens, and the full credential flow inside.
Permissioned Data Shapes: Self-Only Bookmarks
ngerakines.leaflet.pub