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Welcome to the OASIS XDI TC Technical Committee Wiki. XDI is a format and protocol for semantic data interchange -- a way different systems, applications, and databases can describe, map, exchange, link, synchronize, and protect data using a shared semantic graph model. XDI uses a globally addressable contextual graph model based on the RDF graph model defined by the W3C Semantic Web activity.

The XDI TC is currently in the process of drafting the XDI 1.0 suite of specifications. This wiki is a tool to help use share information, develop proposals, and document examples. We try our best to keep it current and navigation-friendly for newcomers to XDI, however since it is a working wiki, you will almost certainly find pages or examples that are not fully current with draft specifications.

Pages recently added or significantly updated: LinkContractBranches, SemanticFiltering, GroupMessaging, CoreSpecRevisions, JsonXdiMapping.

XDI TC Wiki Quickstart Guide
Recommended Starting Pages	The XDI Graph Model - contains links to introductory materials explaining XDI and the XDI graph model
	XDI Design Goals - The ten major design goals for the XDI graph model and semantic data interchange protocol
	XDI ABNF - formal ABNF rules defining the XDI graph model
	XDI Serialization Formats - the JSON serialization formats (and 2 text display formats) for XDI
	XDI Messages - the basic patterns for XDI messaging
	XDI Dictionaries - the basic patterns for XDI dictionary definitions
	XDI Signatures - the pattern for digitally signing or encrypting an XDI graph, including an XDI message
	XDI Link Contracts - how XDI does portable semantic authorization
	XDI Policy Expression - how XDI does semantic policy expression
	XDI Discovery - how XDI does P2P discovery of XDI endpoint URIs
Reference Pages	Glossary - terminology used throughout the XDI 1.0 specifications
	XDI Symbol Table - summary of the symbols used in XDI syntax
	XdiDollarDictionary - a list of all proposed entries for the XDI $ dictionary
Informative Pages	Informative (NOT part of XDI 1.0 specs)
TC Process Pages	Weekly Meeting - instructions for our weekly webmeeting
	XDI 1.0 Specs List - a list of the proposed XDI 1.0 specifications
	Spec Drafting - instructions for XDI spec editors
	New Pages - instructions about adding a new page to the wiki
Page Categories	Graph Model
	Serialization
	Messaging
	Discovery
	Link Contracts
	Security
	Privacy
	Dictionary
	Queries
	Conformance
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