NVO987 | Identity Node

Infrastructure Overview

The decentralized digital identity node associated with the identifier did:web:identity.nvo987.us.

This website serves as the central reference point on the internet for the personal research identity and digital infrastructure of Nicholas Van-Orton. The purpose of the system is to establish a stable, long-term referencable identity that connects research activity, publications, cultural projects, and related digital resources.

Nicholas Van-Orton works as an independent researcher without an institutional affiliation to a university or research institute. His work primarily focuses on modern and contemporary visual culture, digital humanities, as well as the technological and cultural questions of decentralized digital identity and the semantic web.

The identity infrastructure is based on open web standards, including Decentralized Identifiers (DID), JSON-LD, FOAF, RDF, RSS and Atom metadata formats. These technologies make it possible for the personal research profile, publications and related knowledge graph structures to be accessible in a machine-readable and interoperable form on the decentralized web.

The goal of the system is to create an open and interconnected research and cultural knowledge network that supports the authentication of digital identity, the stable identification of scholarly references, and the long-term archiving of research outputs.

Decentralized Identifier (DID)

The central element of the infrastructure is the did:web:identity.nvo987.us identifier. This identifier is a web-based identity built on the W3C Decentralized Identifiers standard.

• DID document: https://identity.nvo987.us/.well-known/did.json
• Domain verification: https://identity.nvo987.us/.well-known/did-configuration.json
• DID document hash (SHA-256): https://identity.nvo987.us/.well-known/did.sha256
• DID document signature: https://identity.nvo987.us/.well-known/did.sig
• Blockchain timestamp proof (1): https://identity.nvo987.us/.well-known/did.json.ots
• Blockchain timestamp proof (2): https://identity.nvo987.us/.well-known/did.json-1.ots

Identity Discovery and Metadata

• WebFinger discovery endpoint
• NodeInfo infrastructure metadata
• OpenID configuration
• Security contact information

Cryptographic Verification

The authenticity of the identity is based on public cryptographic keys.

• https://identity.nvo987.us/keys/identity-public.pem
• https://identity.nvo987.us/keys/identity-key.json

Digitally Signed Documents

• identity-statement.json
• research-statement.json
• knowledge-graph-signature.json

Research Infrastructure Domains

• https://nvo987.us
• https://nvo987.fr
• https://knowledge.nvo987.us
• https://lab.nvo987.us
• https://art.nvo987.us
• https://social.nvo987.us
• https://bluesky.nvo987.us
• https://profile.nvo987.us
• https://rss.nvo987.us
• https://identity.nvo987.us
• https://mastodon.nvo987.us

Researcher Profile

Nicholas Van-Orton

Independent researcher working in the fields of decentralized digital identity, the semantic web, and knowledge representation. His research focuses on the Civilizational Interpretive Ratio model, which examines the relationship between the complexity of autonomous systems and human interpretive capacity, as well as on the role of color as a generative principle in the work of Sonia Delaunay and in the context of algorithmic image generation.

Founder and President of the cultural and research association NVO987 – Culture Visuelle Moderne et Contemporaine.

Identity document:
https://identity.nvo987.us/profile/person.jsonld

Timestamp proof file (1):
https://identity.nvo987.us/profile/person.jsonld.ots

Timestamp proof file (2):
https://identity.nvo987.us/profile/person.jsonld-1.ots

SHA-256 checksum:
b620507312c5e97566a3c6cfaf99144fefc18a0da7d941401dfa0f5f58fb0368

Checksum file:
https://identity.nvo987.us/profile/person.jsonld.sha256

This OpenTimestamps (.ots) file anchors the hash of the identity document to the Bitcoin blockchain and provides verifiable proof of existence.

RSS feed:
https://identity.nvo987.us/rss.xml

Semantic Web identity profile (FOAF):
https://identity.nvo987.us/foaf.xml

Identity and research feed (Atom):
https://identity.nvo987.us/atom.xml

Brand identity (JSON-LD):
https://identity.nvo987.us/brand.jsonld

Timestamp proof 1 (.ots):
https://identity.nvo987.us/brand.jsonld.ots

Timestamp proof 2 (.ots):
https://identity.nvo987.us/brand.jsonld-1.ots

Decentralized website (ENS / IPFS / NVO987):
https://nvo987.eth.limo

Decentralized website - culturevisuelle.satoshi (ENS / IPFS):
NV0987 – Culture Visuelle Moderne et Contemporaine - Web3 Identity Domain

Research Data

• Publications
• Research projects
• Papers

Federated and Decentralized Networks

• https://mastodon.social/@nvo987
• https://bsky.app/profile/nvo987.us
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/nvo987