Decentralised Authoring, Annotations and Notifications for a Read-Write Web with dokieli

The paper presents dokieli, a fully decentralised, browser-based authoring and annotation platform with built-in support for social interactions, through which people retain ownership of and sovereignty over their data. The resulting “living” documents are interoperable and independent of dokieli since they follow standards and best practices, such as HTML+RDFa for a fine-grained semantic structure, Linked Data Platform for personal data storage, and Linked Data Notifications for updates. This paper describes dokieli’s architecture and implementation, demonstrating advanced document authoring and interaction without a single point of control.