Data

The Wired’s data layer is a personal data store called the WDS (Wired Data Store). Everything a person owns is kept in a store: their spaces, objects, avatars, and files. A store can run on a person’s own machine, on a server they control, or on a server someone else operates for them. One person’s data can live in several stores at once. By default a store runs locally alongside the UNAVI client and syncs to a remote store, which keeps the data reachable while the client is offline.

A store holds two kinds of thing.

• Blobs are fixed sequences of bytes, identified by the hash of those bytes. All content is a blob.
• Documents are maps from keys to blobs, signed by their writers. They are the only thing in a store that changes.

Spaces, avatars, and profiles are conventions for naming and arranging documents and blobs.