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<a href="https://plus.google.com/b/102910670341143019851/102910670341143019851/posts/2f2Duq4LDzu">Seki</a> is my little project intended to explore some of the space around the notion of a Linked Data Platform (bit of praxis there, I didn't envision it that way when I started). The W3C have chartered an <a href="http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/charter.html">LDP Working Group</a>, so obviously I'll be watching over there for tie-ins. The approach I'm taking is to build a front end/bridge to a SPARQL 1.1-capable triplestore. So far I've got a rough skeleton down so it can behave essentially as a (very crude) CMS. When I was last looking at the code I hit something of a stumbling block with how best to cover authentication/authorization. On paper it looks like the modeling side of it should be straightforward, though in practice there are a lot of choices, not obvious which are better - <a href="https://plus.google.com/103350903593895042748/posts">Bergi</a> (the Bergwinkl one)) has been putting some time in on it recently, I reckon I'll just follow his lead. Protocol-wise, I think for now I'll just go with HTTP Basic. Seki uses node.js and I get the sense that it'll be very straightforward to wrap the appropriate parts in HTTPS. (I think when I asked around, Hixie's suggestion was Basic over HTTPS).
My intention was once Seki was fairly usable I'd slap it on hyperdata.org, play with it live there. As it happened the DB behind the Wiki I had running there got corrupted, so a couple of days ago I pushed Seki in its place. It's far from what you'd call fully functional yet, but all I needed right away was it to serve static files, and that it's doing admirably.
Once I've go it going properly with basic CMS functionality (with auth), I plan to have a go at hooking in some of the things I saw at the <a href="http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/Workshops/Salzburg2012">Salzburg workshop</a> the other week - <a href="http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/Stanbol">Apache Stanbol</a>, the <a href="http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/VIE">VIE widgets</a> and associated bits and pieces. The motivation there is in part that those things are just cool stuff, but there's a slightly deeper reason too. Their design is such that they are strongly componentized, with primary interface everywhere being the Web. Architecturally, IMHO, that has to be the right direction.