Data Portability for Educators
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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.
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- 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/
- 14. Social networking gone bad
- 15. This is the definition of phishing
- 18. OpenID and Oauth
- 19. OpenID login
- 20. Import your social graph
- 22. We want control over our content http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericrice/1695411823/
- 24. Flash in a Silo
- 25. Service lock in
- 26. Export my own data
- 29. We want to licence our content http://www.flickr.com/photos/peweck/423497311/
- 30. Who owns what?
- 32. Other licences
- 33. Which license?
- 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/
- 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.”
- 47. Deleting all traces of yourself
- 49. Another form of lock in?
- 50. We expect our media to be perma-linked
- 55. Perma-links into media blobs
- 57. Audio excerpts
- 58. We want to share content and knowledge http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimax/319342240/
- 62. Export of data
- 64. Export of your attention
- 66. We want access to our own data
- 68. Microformats
- 69. Open API's
- 74. Adding meaning to data
- 75. We want social tools to aid portability http://www.flickr.com/photos/technopops/117494977
- 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