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<html lang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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<head>
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<meta charset="utf-8" />
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<title>About - Solid</title>
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<meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" name="viewport" />
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="style/base.css" />
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<body about="" id="about" prefix="schema: http://schema.org/ doap: http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap# foaf: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/">
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<address about="#i" id="i" typeof="foaf:Project doap:Project">
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<a href="/" rel="doap:homepage"><img alt="Solid logo" rel="foaf:img" src="/image/logo.svg" width="50" /> <span property="doap:name">Solid</span></a>
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</address>
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<nav>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="/about.html">About Solid</a></li>
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<li><a href="/for-developers.html">For Developers</a></li>
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<li><a href="/for-organizations.html">For Organizations</a></li>
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<li><a href="/community.html">Community</a></li>
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<article about="" typeof="schema:Article">
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<h1 property="schema:name">A Short History of the Solid Protocol</h1>
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<!-- copied from https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/history/AShortHistoryoftheSolidProtocol.html -->
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<div class="cols">
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<h2>Research at MIT et al.</h2>
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<p>The Solid project came out of research at MIT into a
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powerful web of data</p>
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<p>In 2000, MIT <a href="https://www.csail.mit.edu/">CSAIL</a>
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Decentralised Infomation Group (<a href=
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"https://groups.csail.mit.edu/dig/">DIG</a>) got funding from
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DARPA to work on Semantic Web, which produced RDF-based
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systems, and N3 rules. The python codebase for that work is now
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at <a class="c8" href=
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"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/linkeddata/swap&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1707316247988683&amp;usg=AOvVaw1hTtIuun8mL1M0-PBpvrCk">
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https://github.com/linkeddata/swap</a></p>
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<p>From 1999 when the browsers developed the ability to do
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“<a class="c8" href=
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"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1707316247989069&amp;usg=AOvVaw21nBbfS-yxsCAhd2JARxP5">AJAX</a>”,
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to call back from the web page client to the server using
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what was XMLRPCRequest and became fetch(), then it was possible
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to build systems with the App in the client, with calls back to
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the server for data storage.</p>
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<p>The project in the lab responded to that possibility with
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the “Tabulator” - a JS client which would allow the user to
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explore linked data on the web.</p>
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<p>2006: Berners-Lee, T., Chen, Y., Chilton, L., Connolly, D.,
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Dhanaraj, R., Hollenbach, J., Lerer, A. and Sheets, D., 2006,
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November. Tabulator: Exploring and analyzing linked data on the
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semantic web. In Proceedings of the 3rd international semantic
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web user interaction workshop (Vol. 2006, p. 159)</p>
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<p>2007: Berners-Lee, T., Hollenbach, J., Lu, K., Presbrey, J. and
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Pru d'hommeaux, E., 2007. Tabulator redux: Writing into the
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semantic web</p>
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<p>2009: Tim BL gave a TED Talk about the importance of the
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web of data, not just documents, open data on the web. He also
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talks about the web and Linked Data at the Web Summit that
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year.</p>
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<p>2009: An important aspect of the project was that it attempts to
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make a class="c11"&gt;read-write web of data.
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Anything the user could read and had permission to write could
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also be written. The “Read-Write Web” was a mantra. The August
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2009 Design Issues notes ”<a class="c8" href=
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"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/ReadWriteLinkedData.html&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1707316247989663&amp;usg=AOvVaw1-YMRFj9lrr2n12weBEuVw">Read-Write
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Linked Data</a>” and “<a class="c8" href=
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"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/CloudStorage.html&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1707316247989829&amp;usg=AOvVaw3zvNG-ryPSRmj0hfaGgxbL">Socially
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Aware Cloud Storage”</a> emphasized the need for a
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read-write web of linked data as a response to the data silos
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of current social network sites.</p>
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<p>2009? an ISWC paper, Hollenbahch, J, et al, MIT, “<a class="c8" href=
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"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.readkong.com/page/using-rdf-metadata-to-enable-access-control-on-the-social-1648893&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1707316247990322&amp;usg=AOvVaw18Y-OD0BbOyv6Q6S76PwDn">Using
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rdf metadata to enable access control on the social semantic
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web</a>”</p>
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<p>2011: There was a <a href=
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"https://www.w3.org/community/rww/">Read-Write Web Cmmunity
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Group</a>, started in 2011, most of its activity in 2012, which
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discussed the RWW up till around 2017</p>
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<p>in 2012, at ISWC, for example, Tim gave a <a href=
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"https://videolectures.net/iswc2012_berners_lee_semantic_web/?t=70">
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talk</a> about the worlkd od RWLD and the need for
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standardising the protocol</p>
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<p>But once users could write as well as read, access control
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was important. The W3C’s own site had per-item RDF-based
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access control with a UI. The tabulator project more or less
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copied that system, but this time storing access control
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information in RDF files rather than an access database.</p>
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<h2>The name Solid</h2>
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<p>Later work on the Read-writeLinked Data theme was in
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collaboration between MIT and QCRI, with funding from QCRI.
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That is when Sandro Hawke thought of the name “Solid” for
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“Social Linked Data” as a name for the platform - the interface
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spec between client and server - the protocol.</p>
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<p>2016: Mansour, E., Sambra, A.V., Hawke, S., Zereba, M., Capadisli,
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S., Ghanem, A., Aboulnaga, A. and Berners-Lee, T., 2016, April.
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A demonstration of the solid platform for social web
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applications. In Proceedings of the 25th international
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conference companion on world wide web (pp. 223-226) (<a class=
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"c8" href=
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"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2872518.2890529?casa_token%3Dmz6Y8Ccd310AAAAA:DlMx7_ilup7Krgahr1oK6wep2F2e5bu7D7cUXYf1x3zwPmQZLo-K2hpLAIP-tEDDhWaeQvOdBq980vo&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1707316247990769&amp;usg=AOvVaw3eeaCWZEV4e3Nn1G_T3i4I">here</a>)</p>
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<p>2015: As the platform was becoming something which it would be
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important to standardize and spread, and as for such a broad
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platform, some customers would need to be able to call on
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commercial products and services, there was thought of making a
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company – a bit as Netscape had for the early Web - provide
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commercial solutions.</p>
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<p>In 2015, The team approached Mastercard Labs to see whether
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they would consider funding such a company. After much
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technical due diligence, the MC Labs team felt that the
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platform itself needed more work in the lab. The specs
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and the open source code needed to be more elaborate.
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They did then fund the next two years of work in the
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lab.</p>
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<h2>Forming Inrupt.com</h2>
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<p>In 2017, we looked again at forming a company. Now the
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time was ripe, with support from local VC Glasswing, and
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others. The company was Inrupt.</p>
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<p>Inrupt created its own enterprise grade Solid Protocol
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compatible products, and also funded work at IMEC at
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Ghent University on open source code.</p>
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<p>The Solid organization holding the specs was a Github
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organization, and so much of the interaction used github
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processes and also Gitter chat. Gitter chat existed
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around any github org or repo. (Gitter chat later moved to Matrix protcol, now
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in use in 2023). The Solid community had also a
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<a href="https://solidproject.org/">web site</a>
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and a <a href="https://forum.solidproject.org/">forum</a>,
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and series of meetups “Solid World” which went
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online with Covid.</p>
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<p>2018: In October 2018, Melvin Carvalho proposed the
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W3C Solid Community group. Code contributors were asked
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to join the CG for the limited IP commitment it would give.
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A future possible W3C Working group would give much
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better Royalty Free guarantees, than the CG.</p>
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<p>Release dates of the protocol:</p>
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<p>2021-12-17 - Version 0.9.0 of the Solid Procol spec
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released</p>
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<p>2022-12-31- Version 0.10.0 of the Solid Procol spec
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released</p>
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<p>Presentations and press about the Solid movement since 2018
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have included:</p>
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<p class="c2 c4"> 2018, October, <a class="c8" href=
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"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DelfSzMATcB4&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1707316247991887&amp;usg=AOvVaw0U4FvT6O9u1QqTdIYKziQM">
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MozFest</a> </p>
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<p class="c2 c4">2021 dWeb Camp</p>
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<p class="c2 c4"> 2022 Web Summit.</p>
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<p class="c2 c4 c3"></p>
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<p>2023 dWeb Camp, California</p>
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<p class="c2 c4">2023 July WeAreDevelopers, Berlin</p>
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<p class="c2 c4 c3"></p>
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<p>Early Press included:</p>
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<p class="c2 c4">2018/7 Katrina Brooker, Vanity Fair, ““I Was
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Devastated”: Tim Berners-Lee, the Man Who Created the World
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Wide Web, Has Some Regrets”</p>
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<p>On 27 July 2022, Tim met physically with the W3C TAG to
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discuss Solid, during the day and the dinner after.</p>
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<address>
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Tim Berners-Lee, 2023
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</article>
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<footer>
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<li><a href="/about.html">About</a></li>
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<li><a href="/for-developers.html" rel="rdfs:seeAlso">For Developers</a></li>
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<li><a href="/for-organizations.html" rel="rdfs:seeAlso">For Organizations</a></li>
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<li><a href="/community.html" rel="rdfs:seeAlso">Community</a></li>
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<li><a href="/#">License</a></li>
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<li><a about="#i" href="https://github.com/solid/process/blob/main/code-of-conduct.md" rel="schema:ethicsPolicy">Code of Conduct</a></li>
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<dt>Accounts</dt>
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<li><a href="mailto:[email protected]" rel="doap:mailing-list">[email protected]</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/solid/" rel="doap:repository"><img src="/image/github.svg" alt="github" width="20" /></a></li>
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