Data Portability
open standards for sharing and remixing data
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adammcgrath/429230598/ 28/02/08

Overview
● why is the BBC interested in data portability
● what is data portability
● many examples of good and bad practice
● portability principles
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adammcgrath/429230598/

“Get web savvy or we die...”

The audience/participations are in control

The user controlled revolution
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sinistergiraffee

The era of control has passed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gadgettakesapicture/2240511988/

The era of control has passed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gadgettakesapicture/2240511988/

Does it work on a iphone?

Data portability
“As users, our identity, photos, videos and other
forms of personal data should be discoverable
by, and shared between our chosen (and
trusted) tools or vendors. We need a DHCP
for Identity. A distributed File System for data.
The technologies already exist, we simply
need a complete reference design to put the
pieces together.”

Data portability principles
● We want control over the profiles, relationships, content
and media we create and maintain, regardless of what
platform they are hosted on
● We want open formats, APIs, protocols and policies for
the data we control
● We want to protect user rights and privacy
● We will recommend existing standards wherever
possible rather than inventing new ones

Same principles?
● Your students should have control over the profiles,
relationships, content and media we create and
maintain, regardless of what platform they are hosted on
● Your students should use open formats, APIs, protocols
and policies for the data they control
● You want to protect their rights and privacy
● You should be recommending existing standards
wherever possible rather than inventing new ones

We want control over our accounts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/646403383/

Untrusted services

Social networking gone bad

This is the definition of phishing

Permission based system

Permission based system

OpenID and Oauth

OpenID login

Import your social graph

Social network portability

We want control over our content
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericrice/1695411823/

Proprietary tools

Flash in a Silo

Service lock in

Export my own data

Transformable formats

Importing similar data

We want to licence our content
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peweck/423497311/

Who owns what?

Creative Commons licences

Other licences

Which license?

Discoverable licensing

Facebook Eula
“By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you
automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you
have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable,
perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide
license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly
perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole
or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose,
commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with
the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works
of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to
grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.”

We want to participate openly
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iconolith/145162224/

Open collaboration

Sharing geological information

Collaborative documents

Exporting collaborative works

We will move if we want to
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamat/204542767/

Microsoft & Yahoo! deal
“As soon as the news hit the wires that Microsoft is
proposing a $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, Flickr users
began posting anti-Microsoft images, satirical \"Flickr
Live\" logos and announcing they will abandon Flickr if it
falls into Microsoft hands, fearing such a move would
mark the beginning of the end.”

Passionate response
http://www.flickr.com/photos/satoboy/2236710520/

Transferring your content

Transferring your content

Forced account removal

Deleting all traces of yourself

Voluntary account removal

Another form of lock in?

We expect our media to be perma-linked

Encouraging deep linking

Encouraging archived media

Perma-linked Media

Perma-linking document pages

Perma-links into media blobs

Audio perma-links

Audio excerpts

We want to share content and knowledge
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimax/319342240/

Sharing of Statistics

Sharing of Statistics

Export of Statistics

Export of data

Export of meta-data

Export of your attention

Sharing of content

We want access to our own data

RSS feeds
http://www.flickr.com/photos/torchondo/493773202/

Microformats

Open API's

Microsoft open's up

Microsoft open's up

Aggregation possibilities

Collective intelligence

Adding meaning to data

We want social tools to aid portability
http://www.flickr.com/photos/technopops/117494977

Applescript + Automator

Conduit

Yahoo! Pipes

Saving your blog entries

Recording Voip

Enable a API from any online source

Instil these principles in your students
● We want control over our accounts
● We want control over our content
● We want to licence our content
● We will move if we want to
● We want to participate openly
● We expect our media to be perma-linked
● We want to share content and knowledge
● We want access to our own data
● We want social tools to aid portability
http://www.flickr.com/photos/superciliousness/1922398858/

Don't screw up, the alternative is scary...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gadgettakesapicture/2240511988/

Thank you, any questions?
http://www.cubicgarden.com
Ian Forrester - ian.forrester@bbc.co.uk
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dogseat/436402348/ Presentation : CC BY-NC-SA