ESPRESSO: A Framework for Empowering Search on Decentralized Web
Published in Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2023, 2023
Recommended citation: Mohamed Ragab, Yury Savateev, Reza Moosaei, Thanassis Tiropanis, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Adriane Chapman, and George Roussos. 2023. ESPRESSO: A Framework for Empowering Search on Decentralized Web. In Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2023: 24th International Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, October 25–27, 2023, Proceedings. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 360–375. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7254-8_28 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-981-99-7254-8_28
In this paper, we propose the ESPRESSO framework, which aims to enable individuals or applications to search Solid pods at a large scale while pod owners maintain control over access to their data. ESPRESSO considers access rights and caching needs while facilitating the performance of distributed queries. Our framework offers a vision for empowering search utilities in the decentralized Web, utilizing the Solid framework, and opens up new research directions for future decentralized search applications.