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Alice Poggioli authoredAlice Poggioli authored
Synopsis
We are all, as users, captive to the digital platforms we use, attached to them by the network effect over which they have a monopoly.
Thanks to W3C and the work of Tim Berners-Lee, an alternative is possible. The new web standards allow the network effect to be shared between the different digital tools and give us back total control over our personal data.
Startin’blox has set itself the mission of precipitating the advent of this new type of digital platform.
To know more about us, visit our website
To meet us, come our chat
Explanation
Today’s applications have their own database. A back depends on a front and screw and vice versa. In a decentralized web, there are data sources and client applications that use these datas.
This is made possible by the fact that the data is interoperable because it is written in RDF, the basic language of the semantic web.
Starin’blox is a front-end framework composed of web components that can receive federated data sources in RDF. This means that you can only use a component using data sources already available on the web.
federation
This way of building application allows you to benefit from the network effect while keeping control of your digital tool.
Our work is based on an international project : The Solid Project.
Have a look on our SOLID introduction !
Our approach
Startin’blox technology is aimed at enabling anyone with little development skills to create their own web application easily and quicky respecting both the web components standards and the Linked Data Platform convention.
To be sure to speak about the same things, have a look to the glossary.
If you still have any doubts about the vocabulary used throughout this documentation, you are welcome to open an issue :)
How to use the front
You have several ways of using Startin’blox. Choose the one adapted to your needs :
- Using a component alone in an existing application
- Build a application from scratch with Startin’Blox framework
- Implement a component with Wordpress
- Make your own component
This Sib Builder could also be useful.
How to manage a server
Startin’blox team has developed a solution to manage the back and creating data sources. We’ve took Django technology and we’ve adapt it to deliver datas according to the Linked Data Platform convention. Our solution est DjangoLDP. But other solutions could exist.
Please refer to the Sib server documentation if you want to set up a back-end.
Get involved !
Startin’Blox is a cooperative that develops free tools to precipitate the development of a new type of application based on the vision of a decentralized web where users are put back in the center of our attention. It sells expertise, support, training and web development but our deep-seated will is to help to establish new economic models that do not capitalize on the monopolization of data.
If you share this vision and want to contribute to it, come and meet us on our chat and help us make the Startin’blox experience even better :)
Thank you !