Why using AURORAL

Creation of the AURORAL ontology reusing other well known ontologies as SAREF, OWL, FOAF...

Description of AURORAL Things interfaces and metadata using W3C WoT Thing Descriptions

Exchanging data using RDF in JSON-LD format

The nodes are the distributed component of AURORAL

Nodes are installed by the user and act as gateway with AURORAL

The nodes provide all the functionality to interact with other nodes, but also to work with your local data

AURORAL nodes have a series of capabilities that allow them to independently work with RDF data and to use SPARQL

In AURORAL we believe in democratic governance, so all organisations registered are at the same level

Different levels of granularity both for allowing discovery of metadata and access to actual data

Possibility to set up different user roles within an organisation

The user data is never stored in the platform and remains managed by the owner

The context data is also stored at the nodes, and it is only visible to other nodes if collaboration has been agreed

All data exchanged is signed to avoid tampering and the transactions happen over encrypted channels

Code available in GitHub

Possiblity to have AURORAL adapters or plugins created by the community

Reuse of other opensource projects like Openfire or Node-RED

Reusing and extending W3C semantic web standards

Building communication channels using battle proofed protocols like HTPP or XMPP