Solid Environment & Glossary

Glossary of Common terms used in the solid environnement. You can also see https://github.com/solid/vocab/tree/specification-terms

Glossary

ACL : Access Control List
CRUD : Create, Read, Update, Delete (in solid used in conjonction with a HTTP RESTful API)
CSS : Community Solid Server
DPoP : Demonstration of Proof-of-Possession
ESS : Enterprise Solid Server
HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language
IdP : WebID Identity Provider (see also OIDC Provider)
Interoperability
LDP : Linked Data Provider
Linked Data
NSS : Node Solid Server
OP : OIDC Provider
pod
PSS : PHP Solid Server
RDF : Resource Description Framework
solid-server
solidos (used to be mashlib) : web app used to display linked data (pod data's or external linked data) implemented by default in NSS
solid protocol : set of rules relative to solid server implementation and data interoperability
solid specifications :
solid Technical report
SPARQL Query Language for RDF
Store, kb ... : graph representation of linked data in computer memory
turtle, JsonLD, RDFa : RDF syntax notation used to describe linked data
W3C : World Wide Web Consortium (elaborates recommendations and specifications)
WAC : Web Access Control
WebID : Web Identity
WPS : WebSocket Pub/Sub (notifications)

a pod is a storage place linked to a WebID : ex: https://solidos.solidcommunity.net/profile/card#me
a pod is a web server
a pod can contain any type of data (linked data, text, music video, ....)
pod's are stored on a Solid server.

a solid server is accessible through a url : example the community solid server https://solidcommunity.net
a solid server can be an IdP (identity provider = provider of WebID's), a LDP (linked data provider = pod provider) or both
Solid servers should be interoperable. This means that a solid app should works on pod's from whatever server is used.
example of server
- NSS : node-solid-server IdP+LDP open-source. solidcommunity.net is using NSS
- CSS : community-solid-server IDP+LDP open-source
- PSS : IDP+LDP open-source
- ESS : enterprise-solid-server developped by inrupt
- ...

Are accessed via authenticated REST API following the Solid protocol

Linked data are managed with the use of RDF libraries (rdflib.js, N3, ..)

SolidOS is a default solid web app to access solid data on solid-server whose resources/container can be fetched on Unix like file-system
NSS allways support SolidOS and CSS with file-system (example: CSS with mashlib recipe)