A Document is the primary data structure for knowledge in the Hypermedia ecosystem. Every Document is a , so it is modeled with Refs and Change blobs. The main building block for knowledge in the Hyp

The Capability is a signed blob used to delegate new permissions to read, write, or author as another identity. It is used to grant signing permissions to other devices or people. Each capability is a

This Resource is created by forming a graph of Changes and then using Refs to point to the latest heads of the change graph. Currently, the protocol's only ChangeResource is the  The Change blobs de

A Ref is a  that points to the latest state of a  according to the signer. Version Location Generation Tombstone/Deletes Redirect

A Change is a  that specifies some set of operations against a  Deps Ops

A Signed Data Blob is a  which has the "sig" and "signer" fields

A generic data blob is any IPFS file which is encoded using DAG-CBOR and has a "type" field that references this documentation.

A Contact is metadata that an Account uses to describe itself or another Account. Each Contact is a  .