This document discusses data portability and the need for standardized ways to move data between online services. It argues that as users, our personal data like photos, videos and other content should be portable and shareable between services we choose. A standardized system is needed similar to how DHCP allows devices to connect to networks, but for digital identity and data. This would allow automated processing and sharing of data across online services without programming knowledge. Several existing tools and efforts are mentioned as starting to address parts of this challenge around more open APIs and synchronization of data between devices and services.

1. Data Portability
moving around your data
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2. Overview
Its our f****** data...
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the actual data / content
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the analytical data
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the data of data (meta-data)
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Content is never finished
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3. The audience are savvy
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4. Expect sharing to be implicit
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5. Demand rights and licences
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6. Will jump ship if pushed
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7. Have ways around your system
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8. The Web of Data

9. A Web of Open API's?

10. Chris Saad

11. dataportability.org
Standardized Data Portability is the next great
frontier for the web. As users, our identity,
photos, videos and other forms of personal
data should be discoverable by, and shared
between our chosen tools or vendors. We
need a DHCP for Identity. A distributed File
System for data.

12. dataportability.org

13. Plumbing for the next web

14. Imagine. . .
Processing data from your local machine with data
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on-line
Chaining together services you use regularly
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Automating the process so it ran at convenient
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times
Not requiring programming knowledge
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A process that is open, extensible and sharable
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15. Hot on the Horizon
REST APIs are dotted all over the landscape
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Web applications are opening up
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Useful web services with revenue models
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RSS and ATOM feeds are becoming ubiquitous
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Desktop search is standard in Vista and OSX
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Widgets and Gadgets are becoming useful
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New projects to organise desktop meta-data
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16. Opening Up the Silos

17. Dataportability in Applications

18. XML Configurations

19. OPML for subscriptions

20. APML for attention data

21. Dataportability in services
http://www.blip.tv

22. Dataportability helper apps
http://www.apple.com/automator

23. Dataportability helper service
http://pipes.yahoo.com

24. Dataportability helper apps
http://www.conduit-project.org

25. Conduit
A synchronisation tool for GNOME which allows the user
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to take their emails, files, bookmarks, and any other type
of personal information and synchronize that data with
another computer, an on-line service, or even another
electronic device.
Conduit manages the synchronisation and conversion of
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data into other formats
Examples
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Synchronize your tomboy notes to a file on a remote computer
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Synchronize your emails to your mobile phone
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Synchronize your bookmarks to delicious, gmail, or even
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26. Thank you, any questions?
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Ian Forrester - ian.forrester@bbc.co.uk
Presentation : CC BY-NC-SA
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