what is data portability?

Data Portability

Christian ScholzCOM.lounge (http://comlounge.net)http://mrtopf.de/blog

for Barcamp Ruhr / Essen

The Problem

„Hey, if you join NoseLetter you will

find all your friends online!“

Profi

le D

ata,

Soc

ial G

raph

Hey, I found a new cool site!

You should join it, too!

Need a place for your photos?

Videos, anyone?

Network Fatigue?But why???

RedundancyRepetition

Yes, we like your data!Give us everything!

One Way Street

Data Silos

no Export

Good photo sharing siteBad photo sharing site(was once good)

no Transfer

We are not amused!

Does it need to be like

that?

The

Data PortabilityProject

http://dataportability.org

technical

Try to use existing standards

But technical is not everything!

This is Robert

Robert has many friends on facebook

He thinks they might be more useful in Outlook

But facebook is write-only!

Unless you use a beta version of Plaxo Pulse!

2 main results:Robert is not on Facebook anymorePeople are unhappy!

1. facebook2. The User3. His contacts

There are three interest groups here:

see also: http://mrtopf.de/blog/web20/thinking-about-plaxo-pulse-scoble-and-privacy/

policy

Technical Blueprint

Policy Blueprint

DataPortability wants to provide 2 documents:

http://dataportability.org