Workspaces

A workspace brings facts, documents, and media together with their membership and history. Use one for a project, a team, an organization, or a shared activity. Each workspace has its own owner and access rules.

Keep a workspace private, share it with selected collaborators, restrict participation to an organization or community, or publish knowledge openly. The workspace model stays the same; you choose its membership and access rules.

Connecting workspaces does not open their contents. A law firm’s confidential casework, a workspace shared with its client, and a public legal reference can remain connected while each keeps its own access boundary.

A mortgage workspace can hold payslips, bank statements, and the facts extracted from them. A quote can refer to the documents behind its figures. Files are graph values, connected to the people and decisions they concern.

Enable Drive to organize those files in directories or bring in a SharePoint library.

Adopt apps from the registry for the work you need. Different apps operate on the workspace's knowledge through their authorized actions.

Choose the hosts that process your workspace and the storage providers that hold its encrypted copies. Those are different responsibilities: a query host needs permission to decrypt, while a storage provider need not see the contents.

Encryption explains that trust boundary. Peer-to-peer networking explains placement and replication.

A workspace builds on the Solid pod model through Linked Web Storage, adding governed knowledge and execution. Its resource interface is independent of physical storage.

For a hands-on introduction, read the workspace guide.