Glossary¶

agent: An entity identified by a WebID.
ACL: Access Control List.
group: Group is identified by an Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI) and consists of members who are agents or other groups.
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.
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.
WebID: A WebID is a way to uniquely identify a person, company, organization, or other agent using a URI. The term “WebID” was coined by Dan Brickley and Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 2000.