This document discusses data portability and the importance of open standards for sharing and remixing data. It outlines principles of data portability such as giving users control over their data regardless of the platform, using open formats and APIs, protecting user privacy and rights, and recommending existing standards. The document warns of issues that can occur when users' data and content are locked into proprietary platforms or formats and advocates for policies that enable data sharing and portability.

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

2. 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/

3. “Get web savvy or we die...”

4. The audience/participations are in control

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

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

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

8. Does it work on a iphone?

9. 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.”

10. 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

11. 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

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

13. Untrusted services

14. Social networking gone bad

15. This is the definition of phishing

16. Permission based system

17. Permission based system

18. OpenID and Oauth

19. OpenID login

20. Import your social graph

21. Social network portability

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

23. Proprietary tools

24. Flash in a Silo

25. Service lock in

26. Export my own data

27. Transformable formats

28. Importing similar data

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

30. Who owns what?

31. Creative Commons licences

32. Other licences

33. Which license?

34. Discoverable licensing

35. 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.”

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

37. Open collaboration

38. Sharing geological information

39. Collaborative documents

40. Exporting collaborative works

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

42. 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 quot;Flickr
Livequot; logos and announcing they will abandon Flickr if it
falls into Microsoft hands, fearing such a move would
mark the beginning of the end.”

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

44. Transferring your content

45. Transferring your content

46. Forced account removal

47. Deleting all traces of yourself

48. Voluntary account removal

49. Another form of lock in?

50. We expect our media to be perma-linked

51. Encouraging deep linking

52. Encouraging archived media

53. Perma-linked Media

54. Perma-linking document pages

55. Perma-links into media blobs

56. Audio perma-links

57. Audio excerpts

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

59. Sharing of Statistics

60. Sharing of Statistics

61. Export of Statistics

62. Export of data

63. Export of meta-data

64. Export of your attention

65. Sharing of content

66. We want access to our own data

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

68. Microformats

69. Open API's

70. Microsoft open's up

71. Microsoft open's up

72. Aggregation possibilities

73. Collective intelligence

74. Adding meaning to data

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

76. Applescript + Automator

77. Conduit

78. Yahoo! Pipes

79. Saving your blog entries

80. Recording Voip

81. Enable a API from any online source

82. 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/

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

84. 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