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/
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/
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.”
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
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