Solid

Tim Berners-Lee's project for storing personal data in user-controlled 'pods' that apps read and write through Linked Data standards.

Visit the project ↗ solidproject.org On GitHub ↗

Part of threads Central against decentralized proposes; Who controls data about me? proposes

builds on

• Linked Data concept 2006 [src]
• Personal data store concept [src]

funded by

• Mastercard organization (2015) [src]

created by

• Tim Berners-Lee person b. 1955 [src]

[?] Unconfirmed

• start: Development at MIT was under way by 2015, when Mastercard funded it; the exact start is not known.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_project)