Open, digital rolodex/social-trust graph protocol.
Create a wiki-like experience for finding collaboration candidates, based on the word of people you already know, respect or trust.
A parser/viewer is likely something that will be worked on in the future. It would take a webpage like https://yourpage.com, check it for the .well-known/trust-graph.json path, and then render the properties it knows to account for as HTML, with all of the back-linked "link" properties validated and rendered either as "navigate to" or dropdown/pop-outs embedded in the core page.
The viewer we build would be configurable and allow you to define which properties you want to include and how to display them, with templates.
Engineers, artists, authors, tradespeople, builders, creators, etc.
The goal of this page is not to define a strict format or a single source of truth, but instead to start establishing a baseline mechanism for an open social-trust-graph protocol.
What an individual or organization decides to include as properties, or at what path, is up to them and what is most useful for their purposes.
Ideally, graph viewers would be flexible enough to account for many different configurations and structures. As each industry/subgroup/subgraph defines a more perfect structure for its needs (i.e Software Engineers may choose to include/exclude different properties than someone working in Marketing, or a Software Engineer lending expertise to tech-adjacent industries may include/exclude something different than an SWE who prefers to work mostly on SaaS products).
// https://yourorganizationpage.com/.well-known/trust-graph.json
{
"we": {
"are": "book characters",
"who": "do stuff"
},
"members": [
{
"name": "cat",
"role": "hat wearer",
"highlights": [
"makes good trouble",
"cleans up after self"
],
"link": "https://messycatinthehat.com/.well-known/trust-graph.json"
},
{
"name": "sam",
"role": "food pressurer",
"link": "https://samthegreenfoodie.com/.well-known/trust-graph.json"
},
{
"name": "sam i am",
"role": "food denier",
"link": "https://yourpage.com/.well-known/trust-graph.json"
}
]
}