openEngiadina is developing a platform for open local knowledge.
Open Local Knowledge
Local knowledge consists of thousand of little pieces of information that describe the social, cultural and natural environment of an area. For example:
Geographic information
Social and cultural events
Organizations and businesses
Infrastructure status
We believe that local knowledge needs to be freely available for everyone to use and republish as they wish. Local knowledge needs to be open knowledge.
Semantic Social Network
openEngiadina is an acknowledgment that data creation and curation is a social activity. We are developing a mashup between a knowledge base (like Wikipedia) and a social network using the XMPP protocol and the Semantic Web.
For whom and why?
openEngiadina is being developed for small municipalities and local organizations.
We want to empower communities to manage their own data. The platform is Free Software, self-hostable and can interoperate with other instances.
Free software
Self-hostable
Decentralized
News
- 20.09.2022 — GeoPub v0.7.0
- 19.08.2022 — RDF/CBOR: A CBOR-based Serialization of RDF
- 1.07.2022 — GeoPub: A Multi-Model Database
- 24.04.2022 — CPub: ActivityPub Client-to-Server Protocol
- 14.04.2022 — GeoPub: Datalog, RDF and IndexedDB
- 17.01.2022 — ActivityStreams over XMPP
- 12.11.2021 — From ActivityPub to XMPP
- 19.06.2021 — Next Generation Internet webinar on Linked Data
- 25.05.2021 — FOSSGIS 2021
- 19.10.2020 — Distributed Mutable Containers
- 12.08.2020 — Demo: Federated Authentication and Content-addressing
- 11.06.2020 — Content-addressing and Authenticity
- 6.04.2020 — GeoPub: ActivityPub for content curation
- 21.03.2020 — Allegra openEngiadina!
- 1.02.2020 — OFFDEM 2020
- 19.11.2019 — A Primer on the Semantic Web and Linked Data
- 23.10.2019 — DINAcon 2019
- 7.09.2019 — ActivityPub Conference 2019
This release demonstrates core ideas developed as part of the openEngiadina project.
A demo installation is available at https://geopub.openengiadina.net .
There are still some rough-edges and performance issues. But we hope the core ideas get through and might even inspire you.
In order to enable decentralized availablility of content we have been working towards a binary serialization of RDF that allows content-addressing: RDF/CBOR.
This is a update to previous work on content-addressable RDF.
We are happy to announce the release of GeoPub v0.6.0.
This adds support for geo-spatial and full-text search indexing. Read the post for the ideas behind this. You can try it out on our demo instance (note that initial loading takes a long time).
We are happy to announce the release of CPub v0.3.0. This release includes support for the ActivityPub Client-to-Server Protocol.
This is the final release of CPub as part of the openEngiadina project. We are now using the XMPP protocol that allows us to use existing server software (see this post).
A more detailed release announcement has been posted on SocialHub.
We are happy to announce the release of GeoPub v0.5.0.
Read the post for a description of the changes and try it out here (Note that initial loading might take some time).
Another year, another small step. GeoPub now uses ActivityStreams over XMPP.
See also the release v0.4.0 and try it out here.
We are happy to announce another release of GeoPub (v0.3.0). This release includes a major architectural change: XMPP instead of ActivityPub. Furthermore, this release supports geospatial data by including a map.
Join us in the NGI webinar on Linked Data!
We will be talking about how openEngiadina is using Linked Data and look forward to hearing about many other interesting projects working on Linked Data in various forms.
openEngiadina wir in einem Lightning Talk an der FOSSGIS 2021 präsentiert.
An der Konferenz gibt es Möglichkeiten sich über openEngiadina, OpenStreetMap, ActivityPub, RDF, Datalog und andere interessante Sachen auszutauschen. Bis dahin!
As part of the NLNet project we have been doing research into data model and data storage.
We are happy to announce an initial version of Distributed Mutable Container, which defines mutable containers that can be used in offline-first and decentralized applications.
We intend to implement the containers in our ActivityPub backend, allowing it to serve as a bridge between more conventional HTTP-based ActivityPub and more robust and decentralized protocols.
We have another little demo showing how federated authentication might look and how previous work on content-addressing works.
As part of the NLNet project we have been doing research into data model and data storage.
We are happy to announce initial results and a demo!
This enables content-addressable RDF and ensuring authenticity of RDF content, enabling offline-first and decentralized applications - things we are trying to build with openEngiadina.
Initial release and demo of GeoPub.
We are very happy to announce that openEngiadina is now being supported by the NLNet Foundation.
An outline of the background, general ideas and next steps of the project.
openEngiadina joined the SocialHub meeting at OFFDEM in Brussels.
An introduction to the underlying data model used by openEngiadina, Linked Data.
openEngiadina was presented at DINAcon 2019 in Bern.
A talk at the ActivityPub Conference in Prague on how the ActivityPub protocol can be used to create any kind of structured data in a crowdsourced manner.
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