Solid World March: Modelling, analysing, and sharing research data - 23 Mar 2026

This month we are delighted to welcome Pierre-Antoine Champin, W3C Principal Data Strategist, and Salomé Durand, Computer Science Undergraduate, as they present SpOTy. The session will be chaired by Roberto Breitman, Solid Community Manager at the ODI, and there’ll be plenty of opportunities to ask questions.

The SpOTy project is aimed at the cross fertilisation between the fields of linguistics and knowledge engineering. It was first developed as a Web application leveraging RDF to help researchers in linguistics organise and analyse their data. In particular, Sparnatural proved a very efficient way for them to easily create complex queries.

In the course of the project, it was rewritten as a Solid application, to provide users with finer grained control over when and how they share their research data. One challenge of this migration was to port the Sparnatural feature.

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