Glenn Jones Skillswap, Brighton 25 November 2008 Experiments in Data Portability

Social Media Aggregation Utility Conversation

To Consult, Design, Educate and Advocate Interoperable Data Portability to Users, Developers and Vendors.

Portability Importing your friends

Portability Importing your profile

Discovery Finding your profiles on the web

The Problem Building a good user experience is difficult

RSS/Atom feeds The true data portability success story

You can integrate thousands of data sources into new applications

You can simply chain data sources together so the sum is more valuable than its parts

You can create pluggable tools for your users

The heart of RSS success No fixed URIs, resource names or hierarchies No coupling to a fixed authorization method Simple discovery at site/url level The data is in a standard format It has standard MIME types

No fixed URIs, resource names or hierarchies

No coupling to a fixed authorization method

Simple discovery at site/url level

The data is in a standard format

It has standard MIME types

Portability Open stack API’s

Demo

Social Graph Node Mapper (sgn) http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennjonesnet/ http://www.flickr.com/people/glennjonesnet/ sgn://flickr.com/?ident=glennjonesnet profile : http://www.flickr.com/people/glennjonesnet/ content : http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennjonesnet/ Un-scalable and not pluggable

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennjonesnet/

http://www.flickr.com/people/glennjonesnet/

<Service priority=&quot;20&quot;> <Type> http://www.w3.org/2006/03/hcard </Type> <Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/contenttype/ profile </Type> <Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/resoucetype/ item </Type> <Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/action/ read </Type> <Type>http://ns.madgex.com/ufdp/authorisation/ oauth </Type> <MediaType> text/html </MediaType> <URI simple:httpmethod=&quot; GET &quot; > http://ufapidemo.madgex.com/profile/ </URI> </Service> XDRS-Simple file describes services Uses a simple meta tag to find XDRS-Simple xml files

URI Template http://www.flickr.com/photos/ glennjonesnet / Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ {username} / Profile: http://www.flickr.com/people/ {username} / username = “glennjonesnet&quot; Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennjonesnet/ Profile: http://www.flickr.com/people/glennjonesnet/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ glennjonesnet /

Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ {username} /

Profile: http://www.flickr.com/people/ {username} /

username = “glennjonesnet&quot;

Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennjonesnet/

Profile: http://www.flickr.com/people/glennjonesnet/

Open Stack Social Graph Search XDRS-Simple URI Templates OAuth microformats

Open Stack Social Graph Search XDRS-Simple URI Templates OAuth microformats Web wide discovery Site API/Services discovery URL description Authentication & access Standard formats

The Future

We don’t really own data in the same way we own property

An old twitter Heading over to the Eagle for something to eat with Madgex folk 12:35 AM Oct 9 th 2008 The value of most data decays over time

Data can be replicated and its ownership diluted or lost

Adactio’s music taste – 24 Nov 2008

{ &quot;mobile phone&quot;: { &quot;value&quot;: &quot;0.2&quot;, &quot;from&quot;: &quot;Moz-History&quot;, &quot;updated&quot;: &quot;/Date(1227539489853+0000)/&quot; } }, { &quot; yahoo &quot;: { &quot;value&quot;: &quot; 0.4 &quot;, &quot;from&quot;: &quot;Moz-History&quot;, &quot;updated&quot;: &quot; 2008-11-13T13:09:09&quot; } }, { &quot; twitter &quot;: { &quot;value&quot;: &quot; 0.4 &quot;, &quot;from&quot;: &quot;Moz-History&quot;, &quot;updated&quot;:2008-11-13T13:09:09&quot; } }, { &quot; authentication &quot;: { &quot;value&quot;: &quot; 0.3 &quot;, &quot;from&quot;: &quot;Moz-History&quot;, &quot;updated&quot;: &quot; 2008-11-13T13:09:09&quot; } }, { &quot; address book &quot;: { &quot;value&quot;: &quot; 0.3 &quot;, &quot;from&quot;: &quot;Moz-History&quot;, &quot;updated&quot;: &quot;2008-11-13T13:09:09&quot; } },

The Ideal Data Portability Future Simple plug and play interfaces where the technology just works

Microformats Parsers http://microformats.org/wiki/parsers Microformats Parser - Optimus - XSLT http://microformatique.com/optimus/ Microformats Parser - Cognition - Perl http://buzzword.org.uk/cognition/ Google Social Graph API http://socialgraph.apis.google.com/ Social Graph Node Mapper http://code.google.com/p/google-sgnodemapper/ URI-Template http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gregorio-uritemplate-03 XRDS-simple http://xrds-simple.net/core/1.0/ Portable Contacts API http://portablecontacts.net/ Blog http://www.glennjones.net/ Madgex Labs http://lab.madgex.com/ Backnetwork http://lab.backnetwork.com/

APML http://www.apml.org/ TasteBroker experimental API for APML http://tastebroker.org/ APML JSON Tag Cloud http://bmn.name/examples/apml/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nic/155854088/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/b0xman/3014728491/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunside/2936135768/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnnyvulkan/506130598/ Thanks to the following for their photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nic/155854088/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/b0xman/3014728491/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunside/2936135768/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnnyvulkan/506130598/

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