Data PortabilityData Portability

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adammcgrath/429230598/

moving around your datamoving around your data

OverviewOverview

● Its our f****** data...

– the actual data / content

– the analytical data

– the data of data (meta-data)

● Content is never finished

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adammcgrath/429230598/

The audience are savvyThe audience are savvy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/646403383/

Expect sharing to be implicitExpect sharing to be implicit

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimax/319342240/

Demand rights and licencesDemand rights and licences

http://www.flickr.com/photos/problog/70829300/

Will jump ship if pushedWill jump ship if pushed

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamat/204542767/

Have ways around your systemHave ways around your system

http://www.flickr.com/photos/technopops/117494977

The Web of DataThe Web of Data

A Web of Open API's?A Web of Open API's?

Chris SaadChris Saad

datadataportability.orgportability.org

Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors. We need a DHCP for Identity. A distributed File System for data.

datadataportability.orgportability.org

Plumbing for the next webPlumbing for the next web

Imagine. . .Imagine. . .

• Processing data from your local machine with data on-line

• Chaining together services you use regularly

• Automating the process so it ran at convenient times

• Not requiring programming knowledge

• A process that is open, extensible and sharable

Hot on the HorizonHot on the Horizon

• REST APIs are dotted all over the landscape

• Web applications are opening up

• Useful web services with revenue models

• RSS and ATOM feeds are becoming ubiquitous

• Desktop search is standard in Vista and OSX

• Widgets and Gadgets are becoming useful

• New projects to organise desktop meta-data

Opening Up the SilosOpening Up the Silos

Dataportability in ApplicationsDataportability in Applications

XML ConfigurationsXML Configurations

OPML for subscriptionsOPML for subscriptions

APML for attention dataAPML for attention data

Dataportability in servicesDataportability in services

http://www.blip.tv

Dataportability helper appsDataportability helper apps

http://www.apple.com/automator

Dataportability helper serviceDataportability helper service

http://pipes.yahoo.com

Dataportability helper appsDataportability helper apps

http://www.conduit-project.org

ConduitConduit● A synchronisation tool for GNOME which allows the user

to take their emails, files, bookmarks, and any other type of personal information and synchronize that data with another computer, an on-line service, or even another electronic device.

● Conduit manages the synchronisation and conversion of data into other formats

● Examples

– Synchronize your tomboy notes to a file on a remote computer

– Synchronize your emails to your mobile phone

– Synchronize your bookmarks to delicious, gmail, or even

Thank you, any questions?Thank you, any questions?

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Ian Forrester - ian.forrester@bbc.co.ukPresentation : CC BY-NC-SA