Solid ERP

Draft Community Group Report,

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Abstract

This work-in-progress Solid client-client set of protocols defines objects and rules to make interoperable apps to manage the activities of en entity that provides goods and/or services like a business or enterprise.

Status of this document

This report was published by the Solid Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track. Please note that under the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA) there is a limited opt-out and other conditions apply. Learn more about W3C Community and Business Groups.

1. Caution

This work is an active draft and should not be considered validated by the community.

2. Terminology

2.1. Namespaces

Prefix Namespace Description
rdf http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# [rdf-schema]
foaf http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ [foaf]
dfc-b https://github.com/datafoodconsortium/ontology/releases/latest/download/DFC_BusinessOntology.owl# Data Food Consortium ontology

3. Goods/services provider

The Solid Goods/Services Provider (GSP) [solid-gsp] is a object in a Solid storage which holds data about an entity that provides goods and/or services.

3.1. Access rights

By default, the GSP container is private. When one wants to make the GSP public, private properties can still be defined in a separated private document, let’s says $ROOT/index-private, linked with the public $ROOT/index document using the rdfs:seeAlso predicate.

3.2. Discovery

Type indexes is the recommended mechanism to discover Solid GSP. The RDF class to register an instance of a Solid GSP is dfc-b:Enterprise. Type indexes MUST only register the GSPs owned by the WebId owner. See [type-indexes].

Conformance

Document conventions

Conformance requirements are expressed with a combination of descriptive assertions and RFC 2119 terminology. The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL” in the normative parts of this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119. However, for readability, these words do not appear in all uppercase letters in this specification.

All of the text of this specification is normative except sections explicitly marked as non-normative, examples, and notes. [RFC2119]

Examples in this specification are introduced with the words “for example” or are set apart from the normative text with class="example", like this:

This is an example of an informative example.

Informative notes begin with the word “Note” and are set apart from the normative text with class="note", like this:

Note, this is an informative note.

References

Normative References

[FOAF]
Dan Brickley; Libby Miller. FOAF Vocabulary Specification 0.99 (Paddington Edition). 14 January 2014. URL: http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec
[RDF-SCHEMA]
Dan Brickley; Ramanathan Guha. RDF Schema 1.1. URL: https://w3c.github.io/rdf-schema/spec/
[RFC2119]
S. Bradner. Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels. March 1997. Best Current Practice. URL: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119
[SOLID-GSP]
Maxime Lecoq-Gaillard. Solid GSP. URL: https://solid.github.io/erp/gsp.html
[TYPE-INDEXES]
Type indexes. URL: https://solid.github.io/type-indexes/