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+json document.

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#

Social Linked Data.

URI#

Uniform Resource Identifier is the official name for those things you see on the Web that begin http: or mailto. 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: