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Adena Schutzberg
Directions Magazine
May 21, 2008
(Geo)technology 2008: Findability, Accessibility, Portability
Plan of Attack
Findability, Accessibility and Portability
Geo and non-geo examples of ways to do some these
What can we learn from all this?
Web of Data (and Services)
Data sources and services are the center of the Web (Facebook, Amazon, Flickr, Twitter, dopplr, etc.), not pages
The world makes the data (some exceptions)
The developers make the data open via standards, APIs, badges, widgets... (some exceptions)
source: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tom_coates_web_of_data.php
Findable?Findability refers to the quality of being locatable or navigable. At the item level, we can evaluate to what degree a particular object is easy to discover or locate.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findability
Findable?Flickr pictures?
Facebook information?
LinkedIn profiles?
Last.fm songs?
What Makes Something Findable?
What it is/contains/links to or is associated with/availability to be searched
The tool used to find it
Accessible?The "ability to access" the functionality, and possible benefit, of some system or entity.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility
Accessible?Flickr pictures? - license, API and built in tools for external use
MySpace information? - API to build on MySpace
LinkedIn profiles? - API to build on LinkedIn
Last.fm songs? - license, API
Intentional or unintentional mechanisms for restricting access to or re-use of data
restriction of robots to websites, with preference to certain search engines
compilation in databases or websites to which only registered members or customers can have accessuse of a proprietary or closed technology or encryption which creates a barrier for access.copyright/license/patent
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data
Portable?Data Portability is the option to use your personal data between trusted applications and vendors.
source: http://www.dataportability.org/
Portable?Flickr pictures?
Facebook information?
LinkedIn profiles?
Last.fm songs?
Different Approaches
Data Portability - the option to use your personal data between trusted applications and vendors (http://www.dataportability.org/)
Data Availability - MySpace offers this with partners: Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter, no storage, just appears when “called,” actual data is not stored or useable
OpenSocial/Friend Connect - a set of common APIs for building social applications across many websites, build one social app, run on many platforms
source: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/03/sharing-my-location-just-the-w.html
Capture Location Use Location
FireEagle
Friendfeed
Meta-Applications
source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/25/friendfeed-raises-5-million-now-open-to-everyone/
source: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/03/sharing-my-locati http://paulstamatiou.com/ 2007/10/20/thoughts-on-friendfeed on-just-the-w.html
friendfeed
friendfeed
Addressing Geodata Findability/Accessibility
ArcGIS Server -> data searchable by Google
ArcGIS Server -> useable as KML stream in Google/other mapping apps
Google geographic search -> now in search API
Future...
Geodata will become part of our (social/business) profiles
Geodata/services providers will enable findability, accessibility, and portability
Advanced search tools for data
New roles for specialized geodata search sites
Questions?
Contact:
Adena Schutzberg
e-mail: [email protected]
apb.directionsmag.com and www.directionsmag.com
