Glossary#
- agent#
An entity identified by a WebID. An agent can be a person, organization, etc.
- ACL#
Access Control List.
- Client Identifier#
A Client Identifier is a URI/IRI that uniquely identifies a client application. For Solid, the Client Identifier dereferences to a
application/ld+jsondocument.For details, see Solid-OIDC specification: Client Identifiers
- group#
Group is identified by an Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI) and consists of members who are agents or other groups.
- IRI#
IRI is the Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI). IRI is similar to URI but uses a Universal Coded Character Set rather whereas URI is limited to US-ASCII character set.
In the documentation, these terms are used interchangeably.
- LDP Service#
An ESS service that implements implements the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Linked Data Platform (LDP) specification. For more information, see LDP Service.
- Pod#
Storage location for your data. Pod is an acronym for Personal Online Data store.
- Pod Server#
Server that hosts/provides Solid Pods.
- Solid#
- URI#
Uniform Resource Identifier is the official name for those things you see on the Web that begin
http:ormailto. For example, http://www.w3.org/ is the URI for the home page of the World Wide Web consortium.URI uses a US-ASCII character set.
In the documentation, these terms are used interchangeably.
- WebID#
A WebID is a URI/IRI that uniquely identifies a person, company, organization, or other agent. See also: