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# Solid Gate
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> Hosted, multi-tenant [Walder](https://github.com/KNowledgeOnWebScale/walder) with a community template hub.
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## What is this?
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[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.
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Solid Gate is the hosted service layer on top of [Walder](https://github.com/KNowledgeOnWebScale/walder) — a tool that builds websites and APIs on top of decentralized knowledge graphs. Walder proved the concept. Solid Gate productizes it: multi-tenancy, Solid OIDC auth per user, cache invalidation via Solid Notifications, and a community hub of one-click templates for common transformations.
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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.
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## How it works
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1. **Authenticate** — grant Solid Gate read access to your pod via Solid OIDC
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2. **Deploy a template** — pick one from the community library or bring your own
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3. **Get a stable URL** — your transformed data is cached and served at a permanent endpoint
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4. **Stays fresh** — [Solid Notifications](https://solid.github.io/notifications/protocol) trigger recomputation when your pod data changes; stale cache served in between
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```
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Your Solid Pod → Solid Gate (Walder) → stable URL (RSS / iCal / JSON / ...)
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↑
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community template
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(or bring your own)
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```
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## Example use cases
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- **Bookmarks → RSS** — publish a "what I'm reading" feed from your pod bookmarks
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- **Events → iCal** — expose your RDF event data to any calendar app
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- **Contacts → vCard** — bridge your pod contacts to legacy address book apps
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- **Any RDF → REST API** — give legacy apps a familiar interface to your pod data
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## The community hub
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The template library is the core value. Common transformations are one-click deploys. Power users publish their own. Think Vercel for Walder configs.
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## Deployment
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### Self-hosted
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Coming soon.
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### Hosted
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Coming soon. Authenticate with your Solid identity, deploy a template, done.
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## Status
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Early design phase. Part of the [Aleph Garden](https://aph.gdn) personal semantic web project.
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## Prior art
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- [Walder](https://github.com/KNowledgeOnWebScale/walder) — the engine underneath; research prototype from IDLab/KNoWS (Ghent). Proved the concept, never productized.
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- [SPARQL-Anything](https://sparql-anything.cc/) — the spiritual mirror of this project
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- [ActivityPods](https://activitypods.org/) — ActivityPub + Solid combined; adjacent but different problem
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