This entry describes an interim solution for providing a minimal level of access control to a Fuseki server.

Fuseki, a part of the Jena family of linked data tools, is an Open Source SPARQL server. It provides the REST-style SPARQL HTTP Update, and SPARQL Query and SPARQL Update using the SPARQL protocol over HTTP.

Though a security model is expected to be developed in future, Fuseki currently has no means of restricting access to the server.

As the next step in developing the Earthster vision of creating a web of linked open sustainability data, Epimorphics is designing a core domain ontology for representing Life Cycle Analysis information about products. The Earthster Core Ontology (ECO) is a core domain ontology for life cycle analysis which is capable of representing models of product supply chains with inputs and outputs to and from nature and flow of goods and services through the supply chain. The first draft of ECO is planned to be ready for consultation in March 2010.