Community Fabric initiative launches!

I am delighted to announce the launch of the Community Fabric initiative! Community Fabric envisions the evolution of a common approach (a set of API definitions and a structured query language) to the issue of processing digital content—including digital ID information—that preserves both the integrity and freedom of diverse online communities of users and the information they own or administrate.

Community Fabric will allow users of compliant applications to enshrine boundaries around their content and identity, utilising Community Fabric's pervasive permissions system ("Security Services"). At the same time, Community Fabric's methods of processing data ("Data Services" and a Community Fabric structured query language) will remain agnostic to the specific way in which data is represented (RDF triple stores, relational databases etc.) within any given compliant application's database, thus facilitating the interoperation not only of diverse ontologies within a given meta-data representation (which is the remit of, for example, Kendra and i-together) but also of diverse representations themselves.

Granular and multidimensional identity. Complete freedom within a mutual respect for one another's boundaries. Shall we make it happen?

N.B. communityfabric.net is coming soon—Community Fabric is an open initiative that is entirely independent of i-together. : )