Solid Cockpit - A Web Interface for Piloting Your Solid Pod

Elias Crum, Bart Buelens, Gokhan Ertaylan, Ruben Taelman

Keywords: Solid Web Application, Data Management, User Interface

TL;DR: A user-friendly web application for the interaction with data in Solid Pods.

Abstract:

Solid Pods provide a flexible and powerful framework for decentralized, user-controlled data storage, enabling individuals to manage and share data while retaining fine-grained privacy controls.
For users, the benefits of the Solid ecosystem are accompanied by a large learning curve, especially for users unfamiliar with RDF or web-based servers.
To fully leverage the capabilities of Solid Pods for users, we developed a web-based application that facilitates intuitive interaction with data stored in Solid Pods along with data discovery functionalities.
The primary objective of this work was to design an application that supports core data management tasks, including uploading and organizing data, modifying privacy and access control settings, and querying stored resources all within one user interface.
The resulting application, Solid Cockpit, allows users to securely connect to their Solid Pod and perform these operations through a web application.
Solid Cockpit is implemented using the Inrupt Solid-Client SDK and provides intuitive client-side content management functionality for Solid Pod data.

Submission Number: 3