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FIRM: Federated Information Resource Manager (ActivityPub and beyond)
https://github.com/steve-bate/firm

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FIRM: Federated Information Resource Manager (ActivityPub and beyond)

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/steve-bate/firm
Owner: steve-bate
License: apache-2.0
Created: 2024-09-02T06:39:51.000Z (4 months ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2024-09-15T12:20:55.000Z (4 months ago)
Last Synced: 2024-09-30T06:41:45.373Z (3 months ago)
Topics: activitypub, federated-social-network, federated-social-web
Language: Python
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Size: 61.5 KB
Stars: 0
Watchers: 1
Forks: 0
Open Issues: 0
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

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README

        # FIRM: Federated Information Resource Manager

> It's not SoLiD, but it's FIRM.

This is an experimental [ActivityPub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/)-enabled federated information resource manager. This library can be used to implement ActivityPub, [Linked Data](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data), and similar servers. It's currently not intended to be the basis for a public servers, but rather a platform for experimentation and implementing proof-of-concept for social web ideas.

This library is being used to implement the [firm-server](https://github.com/steve-bate/firm-server), which added network access, simple web interfaces and other features. The [firm-server](https://github.com/steve-bate/firm-server) is just an example, other servers can be build with this library. Those servers can use a different web framework, different storage strategies, and os on.

This library is still in the early stages of development, but there are already some potentially useful and interesting features:

## Features

These are current features, unless tagged otherwise.

- Python 3 implementation (libraries for other languages being developed)

  - Minimal external dependencies (only cryptography libraries for HTTP signatures)

- Multi-actor

- Multitenant

    - Multiple domains supported on a single server

- Data vocabulary-independent

  - Not specific to [ActivityStreams 2.0](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/)

- Flexible URIs (supports any HTTP URI path structure)

- Abstract web interface

- Abstract resource store

  - Flexible data partitioning

  - Multiple storage implementations (can be used together)

    - In-Memory

    - File System (JSON)

    - [Sqlite3](https://sqlite.org/json1.html) (JSON)

    - #future [deltabase](https://github.com/uname-n/deltabase)

    - #future [MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.com/)

    - #future [RDF Graph Store](https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html)

    - #future [Neo4J](https://neo4j.com/)

    - #future File System + [git](https://git-scm.com/)

- Multiple authentication techniques

    - HTTP Signatures ([Cavage](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-cavage-http-signatures-12))

    - [HTTP Basic Auth](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Authentication)

    - Bearer Tokens

    - Can be used simultaneously (chained)

    - #future [OAuth2](https://oauth.net/2/)

    - #future [FEP](https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep)-specified schemes, new [RFC 9421 HTTP Signatures](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9421/), etc.

- Partial ActivityPub S2S implementation

  - Implements [activitypub-mincore](https://github.com/steve-bate/activitypub-mincore) and more.

  - Interoperates with Mastodon Follow, Undo and Create activities.

- Partial ActivityPub C2S implementation

- Extensible WebFinger (Resource-specific properties)

  - Interoperates with Mastodon

- Extensible NodeInfo (Tenant-specific Metadata)

## Road Map

*This is very subject to change.*

- Version 0.1.1

  - Integration testing with [activitypub-testsuite](https://github.com/steve-bate/activitypub-testsuite) (and/or [feditest](https://feditest.org/))

- Version 0.2.0

    - RDF Graph Storage (mostly implemented already)

    - SPARQL endpoint (already implemented)

    - Full-Text Search on RDF data (implemented already)

- Version 0.3.0

    - JSON Schema Validation ([fediverse-json-schema](https://github.com/steve-bate/fediverse-jsonschema))

    - ActivityPub [Media Upload](https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG/ActivityPub/MediaUpload)

    - ActivityPub C2S Proxy Endpoint

- Version 0.4.0

    - [SoLiD-lite](https://solid-lite.org/) support

    - Document management

- Long Term

    - Event streaming

    - ActivityPub C2S Extensions

    - Mastodon-compatible UI API

    - Additional storage implementations (see above)

    - FEP prototyping and proof-of-concept demonstrations

    - Domain-specific server implementations