Tim Berners-Lee & the Semantic Web — the trace table
The falsifiable part of the entry, on its own and with its sources attached. Each row is a claim that a pattern from the anchor work appears at a named place in the estate — checkable against the repositories, which is the only thing that separates this from a reading list.
| Pattern from the anchor | Where the estate implements it | Version | Status | Source of the row |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machine-readable meaning as the target — a graph a machine can act on rather than a document it can only parse | The estate's graph substrate and the concept document that sets out its thinking | v0.4.0 | implemented | v0_4_0__thinking-in-graphs.md, cited in 02__ §T3 |
| Meaning attached to nodes (RDF's typed-resource model) | Deliberately inverted. The estate derives meaning from edges instead, and the concept document states the inversion as a correction rather than a variation | v0.4.0 | absent | v0_4_0__thinking-in-graphs.md, the Insight (and Mistake) section |
| Meaning derived from connection between things | The edge-first graph model the estate's ontology work is built on | v0.4.0 | implemented | v0_4_0__thinking-in-graphs.md |
| Personal data under the person's own control (Solid pods) | Encrypted vaults, keyed by their holder — compared to pods explicitly, as complementary architectures with different threat models | v0.6.17 | partial | v0.6.17__architecture__solid-protocol-integration-complementary-architectures.md |
| Interoperation with Solid itself — a vault that can read or write a pod | Nowhere. The brief is an architectural comparison, not an integration | v0.6.17 | absent | the same brief, which scopes itself as a comparison |
Every row names where it came from. A trace row is only worth having if you can find out how it was arrived at, so the last column carries the document in the commissioning pack that supports it. No row on this site was written from memory or inference — where the evidence runs out, the row is marked absent or the table says so.
The same rows, as data
The influence map is computed from these files rather than drawn, so the graph cannot disagree with the tables it is made of.