dokieli

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About

Launched: 2015

Record Updated: Apr 18, 2024

Annotations system

Authoring tool

Informal scholarly communications

dokieli is a clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions.

Mission

dokieli aims to re-enable the write dimension of the read-write web, empowering individuals through self-publishing capabilities. Actors can register identifiers for their content, shape, store, and share data within their access, ensuring universal access for all while preserving autonomy over their digital contributions and interactions.

Key Achievements

Implementation of open W3C standards such as the Solid Protocol to enable users to store their content at a preferred storage location on the Web; Web Annotation to annotate specific parts of content with specific motivations; ActivityPub, Activity Vocabulary, and Linked Data Notifications to inform publishing related and social activities; Open Digital Rights Language to aid usage of content and services.

Adoption in publishing and annotating scholarly articles, technical specifications, and blog posts.

Technical Attributes

Open Code Repository

Implemented

Website

Maintenance Status

Actively maintained

Technical Documentation

Implemented

Website

Open Product Roadmap

In Progress

Open Data Statement

Implemented

Website

Content Licensing

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported

Standards Employed

Information is represented and retrieved following the [Linked Data](https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/identity/) for personal/agent identities.

[WebID-TLS](https://github.com/solid/webid-oidc-spec) for authentication.

[Web Access Control](http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/) and [Solid Protocol](https://www.w3.org/TR/ldn/) for inbox notifications for annotations and social sharing.

W3C [ActivityPub](https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/), W3C [Web Annotation Vocabulary](https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-html), and W3C [Selectors and States](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary) for social activities.

W3C [ODRL Information Model](https://www.w3.org/TR/odrl-vocab/) to represent statements about the usage of content and services.

[Memento](https://creativecommons.org/) to assign license to individual contributions and annotations.

[Robust Links](http://schema.org), [SPAR Ontologies](https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/

Hosting Options & Service Providers

Hosting Strategy

Unknown

What other tools and projects does your project interact with?

Internet Archive / Wayback Machine, W3C services

Community Engagement

Code of Conduct

Implemented

Website

Community Engagement

Implemented

Organizational Commitment to Community Engagement

Workshops and presentations at conferences. There is a community chat answering users and developers questions since 2015.

Engagement with Values Frameworks

W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles: https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/

User Contribution Pathways

Contribute funds
Contribute to code
Contribute to documentation
Contribute to education or training

Policies & Governance

Governance Summary

dokieli is a decentralised article authoring, annotation, and social notifcation tool. No governance is known of at this time.

Policies

Web Accessibility Statement

Implemented

Website

Open Data Statement

Implemented

Website

Additional Information

Organizational Structure

Business or Ownership Model

Volunteer community

Full-time Staff

0.0

Funding

Primary Funding Source

Contributions

Funding Needs

Hiring of developers and designers to make improvements to the UX and accessibility.

To further education and outreach initiatives.

To improve the developer experience by improving the codebase and tests to grow the open source community around the project.