README.md
February 9, 2026 · View on GitHub
Solid is an exciting new decentralized hosting project led by Prof. Tim Berners-Lee 
, inventor of the World Wide Web.
The project aims to radically change the way web applications work today, improving personal data ownership & privacy.
Contents
- About Solid
- Learning Resources
- List of Software
- List of Projects
- List of Pods
- Community Sites
- Corporate Sites
- Tutorials
- Discussions
- Technical Info
- Definitions
- International
- Related awesomeness
About Solid
Solid (derived from "Social Linked Data") is a set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social apps
based on Linked Data principles. It's modular, extensible, and follows existing W3C standards and protocols.
"Solid is a platform, built using the existing web. It gives every user a choice about where data is stored,
which specific people and groups can access select elements, and which apps you use.
- It allows you, your family and colleagues, to link and share data with anyone.
- It allows people to look at the same data with different apps at the same time."
Read more of Tim's Open Letter to the community about Solid and Inrupt.
Learning Resources
Docs
- Solid MIT | - What is Solid?
- Solid Docs - Getting started!
- Solid Github | - Re-decentralizing the web. (project directory)
- Solid Specs | - The Solid spec and architecture.
- Solid Wiki - Solid wiki.
- Solid Wikipedia - Solid is a web decentralization project.
- Data Browser Userguide | - Userguide for Solid's default data browser.
- Linked Data API | - Docs for the rdflib.js Linked Data API.
- Social Apps PDF - A paper on Solid for Social Web Apps.
- Solid Hacks Ebook - Melvin Carvalho's coding gitbook for Solid.
- Linked Data Primer - Tim's overview on linked data.
Media
- Tim's TED talk 2009 - 'The Next Web' will unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
- Tim's TED talk 2010 - The Year Open Data Went Worldwide.
- Tim's TED talk 2014 - It’s up to us to fight for the right to access and openness.
- Tim's Mozfest 2018 presentation - Tim speaks at MozFest 2018 with Q&A.
- Tim & Ruben Verborgh with Q&A - Decentralized Web Summit 2018 presentation (@ 4:59:30)
- Solid-Server Demo - Screencast of setting up a Solid-Server Pod.
Articles
- The Project Solid as a Road Assembling Itself on the Go - Nov 6th 2018 by Teodora Petkova.
- Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web - Dec 20th 2017 in-depth overview by Ruben Verborgh.
- How Solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web? - Oct 5th 2018 by Irina Bolychevsky.
- The man who created the web has some regrets - Vanityfair, Aug 2018 by Katrina Brooker.
- Three challenges for the web, according to its inventor - Tim's Open Letter, Mar 12th 2017.
List of Software
Open Source
- Solid's Node Server | - Solid server on top of the file-system in NodeJS.
- Solid Panes | - A set of core solid-compatible apps based on solid-ui.
- Linked Data API | - the Linked Data API for JavaScript.
- Solid File Client | - Javascript library for creating and managing files & folders in Solid data stores.
- Safe Network Backend | - Safe Network backend for Solid apps.
List of Projects
Apps
- Solid Apps | Forum Apps - List of apps implementing Solid, including a wish-list.
- MarkBook.org | - Bookmarking app using Solid. | Live | Userguide
- Solid Chess | - Decentralized chess app build on top of Solid. | Live
- RC LogBook | - Register your radio controlled models and flights. | Live
Editors
- Solid IDE | - Solside, an editor and file manager for Solid data stores. | Live
- Sparql Fiddle | - Run SPARQL queries & procedures from command line or browser. | Live
- Warp LDP | - Warp, the linked data file manager. | Live
- Combo File Editor | - File Editor based on Warp/Solside. | Live
- Spoggy4 | - A visualizer/editor for semantic info and Solid filesystems. | Live
- OpenLink's RDF Editor | - Live RDF document editor.
Viewers
- Profile Viewer - A React app to view and browse Solid WebID Profiles. | Live
- Graphmetrix.net - A Solid graph planner and viewer.
- Basic Data Browser - (Notes) Solid Glossary of Terms.
- Faceted Data Browser - (Notes) Solid Glossary of Terms.
List of Pods
About Pods
- Intro on Pods - What are Pods?
Find Pods
- Get a POD! - Grab a Pod and WebID here!
- Join Solid - Starting pod.
- Test Space - Testing pod.
- Authing.cn - China's first pod host.
Start Pods
- POD Server Setup - Step-by-step instructions for Linux.
Public Pods
- Tim's Pod - The very first hosted pod page?!
- Ruben's Pod - Testing testing..
Community Sites
- Gitter Chat - Solid live chatroom.
- Solid Community - The official Solid Community Forum!
- Solid 中文社区 - A Solid Community forum in China.
- Reddit - Solid subreddit.
- W3C hosted group - Official Solid development group.
- RSS - Solid RSS feed.
- Q&A - Stackoverflow tagged queries.
Corporate Sites
Inrupt
- Inrupt Inc - Homepage of the company tasked with helping Solid’s adoption and success.
- Inrupt Twitter - Follow Inrupt's latest announcements on Twitter!
- Inrupt Linkedin - Inrupt's Linkedin page.
Other
- OpenLink Software | - Empowering individuals & enterprises via Open Access to Data.
Tutorials
Video
- What is Linked Data? - 16th June 2012, an explainer for Linked Data.
- What is Json LD? - 18th June 2012, intro on JSON-LD for Web devs.
- What is RDF? - 7th Jan 2008, intro on the basics of RDFa and the Semantic Web.
Other
- Write an Angular Solid App | - Create a Solid app with Angular Yeoman Generator.
- Playing with Solid - Dontai's beginner's guide to managing a pod.
- Solid Tutorial - Make a Solid app on your lunch break!
- Freecodecamp Intro - What Solid is, and how to get started with it.
- rdflib.js | - This tutorial will walk you through what rdflib.js can do.
Discussions
HackerNews
- How Solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web? | - article
- The man who created the web has some regrets | - article
- Solid aims to radically change the way web apps work | - site
- Solid to reshape the web as we know it | - site
Other
-What is the essence of project Solid?
Technical Info
- Getting Started with RDFLib - Latest rdflib 4.2.2 documentation.
- RDF JavaScript Libraries | - W3C RDFJS Community Group.
- RDF-ext | - RDF Packages supporting the rdf-ext interface.
- Simple RDF | - The simplest RDF library "ever".
- Check RDF documents - W3C's validation service for RDF documents.
- RDF Translator - A multi-format conversion tool for RDF/XML, RDFa, or Microdata.
- JSON-LD Playground - A test area for JSON-LD markup using jsonld.js |
- LDflex Playground | - Solid LDflex playground. | Live
- Fetch API - Provides an interface for fetching resources, including across a network.
- Trellis LDP | - Trellis is a platform for building scalable Linked Data applications.
- RemoteStorage.js - A library for storing user data locally in the browser.
Definitions
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Semantic Web - The Semantic Web, coined by Tim Berners-Lee, is a W3C initiative to promote common data formats and exchange protocols on the Web, most fundamentally the Resource Description Framework (RDF).
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Web Ontology Language - OWL is a knowledge representation, a way to describe taxonomies and classification networks, essentially defining the structure of knowledge for various domains.
International
China
- Solid 中文社区 - A Solid Community forum in China.
- 学习 Solid |
- Solid 是什么? | - 学习 Solid 中文网.
- Solid 中文文档 |
- Solid & IPFS |
- 获取 Pod - 从 Solid 中文网获取.
- Solid & Authing |
- Authing | - An identity for everyone and everything.
- Filego | - Decentralized storage platform secured by Solid, Authing & IPFS. | Site | Intro
Related Awesomeness
- Awesome Self-hosted | - Locally hosting and managing applications instead of renting from SaaS providers.
- Awesome Decentralized | - A curated list of decentralized, P2P, and distributed platforms and applications.
- Awesome Peer-to-peer | - A curated list of peer-to-peer resources.
- Awesome IPFS | - Useful resources for using IPFS.
- Awesome Freenet | - Useful resources for using Freenet.