# Solid Gate

> Your Solid pod, with an API surface you define.

## What is this?

[Solid](https://solidproject.org/) is great for storing your personal RDF data in a pod you control. The problem: every app that wants to read your data needs to speak LDP, understand your specific vocabularies, and parse RDF. Almost none do.

Solid Gate is the adapter layer. Define a mapping template once, and your pod data is exposed as whatever format a consuming app actually wants — RSS, iCal, JSON, a REST endpoint, anything.

Think of it as [SPARQL-Anything](https://sparql-anything.cc/) in reverse: SPARQL-Anything lets you query arbitrary formats *as if* they were RDF. Solid Gate lets you serve your RDF *as if* it were any arbitrary format.

## How it works

1. **Authenticate** — grant Solid Gate read access to your pod via Solid OIDC
2. **Deploy a template** — pick one from the library or write your own
3. **Get a stable URL** — your transformed data is cached and served at a permanent endpoint
4. **Stays fresh** — [Solid Notifications](https://solid.github.io/notifications/protocol) trigger recomputation when your pod data changes; stale cache is served in between

```
Your Solid Pod  →  Solid Gate  →  stable URL (RSS / iCal / JSON / ...)
                       ↑
             mapping template
            (yours or community)
```

## Example use cases

- **Bookmarks → RSS** — publish a "what I'm reading" feed from your pod bookmarks
- **Events → iCal** — expose your RDF event data to any calendar app
- **Contacts → vCard** — bridge your pod contacts to legacy address book apps
- **Any RDF → REST API** — give legacy apps a familiar interface to your pod data

## Deployment

### Self-hosted

Coming soon.

### Hosted

Coming soon. Authenticate with your Solid identity, deploy a template, done.

## Status

Early design phase. Part of the [Aleph Garden](https://aph.gdn) personal semantic web project.

## Related

- [Solid Project](https://solidproject.org/)
- [SPARQL-Anything](https://sparql-anything.cc/) — the spiritual mirror of this project