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
- 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.
- Pod#
Storage location for your data. Pod is an acronym for Personal Online Data store.
- Pod Server#
Server that hosts/provides Solid Pods.
- Resource Owner#
One or more individuals with control level access to resources hosted by a Pod Service.
- 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. IRI is similar to URI but uses a Universal Coded Character Set.
In the documentation, these terms are used interchangeably.
- Verifiable Credential#
Credential/claim that can be cryptographically verified. See https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/#credentials.
- Verifiable Presentation#
Wrapper around one or more Verifiable Credentials.
Verifiable Presentation can also contains a subset of data from Verifiable Credentials or data synthesized from Verifiable Credential(s). See https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/#presentations.
- WebID#
A WebID is a URI/IRI that uniquely identifies a person, company, organization, or other agent. See also: