# Nice writeup of International Semantic Web Conference by Helena Deus - mentions Solid **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [October 23, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/nice-writeup-of-international-semantic-web-conference-by-helena-deus-mentions-solid/182 "2018-10-23T19:29:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![JPL](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/jpl/32/50_2.png) [@JPL](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/JPL)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/nice-writeup-of-international-semantic-web-conference-by-helena-deus-mentions-solid/182/1 "2018-10-23T19:29:39Z")
> The idea behind Solid is to support social activities on the web (much like those supported by Facebook and LinkedIn) while allowing the people interacting with each other to still own their own data yet co-exist with and link to others’ profiles and posts using the principles of the semantic web, including validation of data shapes. Social apps must ask permission to use attributes of the user data, which means that predatory apps that steal and sell user’s social data for a profit won’t be as easy to build as they are today. Libraries are currently being built as part of the Solid ecosystem which will allow developers to use Solid with Javascript (either using [LDFlex](https://github.com/RubenVerborgh/LDflex) or [React](https://reactjs.org/)). > **[Knowledge Graphs and Machine Learning - ISWC 2018 trip report](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/knowledge-graphs-machine-learning-iswc-2018-trip-report-helena-deus/)** > > Last week I attended the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in Monterey, CA. My role was to speak at the Ada Lovelace Day Celebration about the work that Elsevier is doing with regards to measuring and fixing the gender gap in research (see... --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/nice-writeup-of-international-semantic-web-conference-by-helena-deus-mentions-solid/182)._