DataPortability Project - Six Months Strong
News Summary:
Six months from its start, the DataPortability Project has advanced the conversation about user data rights. The project's volunteers have worked together to develop a uniquely open, transparent and effective community; earn support from standards groups and vendors; initiate documentation of technical best practices; and introduce a trustmark for the data web. DataPortability Connect.Control.Share.Remix
Key Announcements
- DataPortability.org clearly established 2008 as the year of "Data Portability"
- Stoking interest in open standards across the business ecosystem, digital and mainstream
- Inviting a broad new set of participants to the conversation
- Creating formal networks and informal outreach, such as the DataPortability Video Project and the DataPortability InMotion Podcast Series, which invited people to describe what data portability means to them
- Launched a new "participant democracy" via a democratic, open and radically transparent governance experiment using rough consensus and distributed leadership
- Established a unique project-based, democratic workflow
- Began completing tasks using self-formed teams
- Enjoys a participant base that works virtually together every day across multiple continents, cities and time zones
- To read more and/or participate http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/Workflow
- Cataloging "Month-by-Month" Data Portability initiatives
- Creation of the DIY (Do It Yourself Data Portability) Club
- Teams identify a project task of the month
- Engineers form focused, small projects that yield immediate benefit and build cumulative value towards openness
- The first project: 'Rel=me' month
- To partcipate http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/diy+dp
- Identifying "Best Technical Practices" in data portability
- Published stubs for the first batch of documents
- Based on discussion in the Technical Action Group Skype Chat, Google Group and Meetups
- A first step towards moving to our 'Design' phase (as per the DataPortability Project Roadmap)
- Open to all in the community -- invited to now join the process of padding out and completing these documents over the coming months
- To read more and/or participate: http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/Technical+Specifications
- Announcing the all-new "DataPortability Trustmark"
- Selected from more than 400 logo submissions reviewed by a panel of judges and voted by 4,562 people
- Delivered to the values and processes of openness and participation
- The new trustmark as included in this press release header is representative of the project's vision: Making personal data accessible and inter-operable across trusted applications and vendors
- 4000 Stickers available at the Web 2.0 Expo
- Announcing the all-new DataPortability Homepage
- Targeted audience landing pages
- Cleaner, more consumer facing presentation with easier access to detailed documentation
- Integration of new logo
- Targeted landing pages built on wiki technology to allow the community to evolve our site
- Visit: www.dataportability.org
- Seen the implementation of many open technologies by small and large vendors in the name of 'Data Portability' including:
- Google Contacts API
- Microsoft Contacts API
- Digg supporting APML, XFN, hCard and RDFa
- LinkedIn activity stream RSS
- And many more...
Quotes:
- "This day will be remembered [when Google and Facebook announced support]", Duncan Riley of TechCrunch
- "2008 Is The Year of Data Portability" Nick O'Neill
- "If these industry titans can put aside their rivalry and work together - magic could happen." Marshall Kirkpatrick, lead writer at ReadWriteWeb
- "Organizationally, it is probably the most impressive decentralized emergent project I have ever ever seen." Mike Soron
- "This is the trend of 2008," Jeremiah Owyang, an analyst at Forrester Research.
- "the users are saying, "Give me my data back. That's my data.... So, now it's, "Give it to me using the idea of standards. If you do that, then I can do things with it.""- Tim Berners-Lee Talis Podcast with Paul Miler Sir Tim Berners-Lee Talks with Talis about the Semantic Web
- "It's important to keep in mind that DataPortability, unlike Google's OpenSocial, is not an agreement to adopt a set of standards. It's a group of Web personalities, many of them rivals in one capacity or another, who show interest in developing some kind of standard. This looks like a legitimate effort on behalf of some great minds who really do want to make the social Web run more smoothly, but anything like this is going to take quite some time to overcome the roadblocks." - Caroline McCarthy - DataPortability has big names on board, but a long road ahead Jan 8, 2008.
- "Thankfully, the folks over at DataPortability.org are working with social-networking outfits to get them to adopt the existing technologies that will let users share data between sites. But it's not going to be easy".- Robert Scoble - How to Fix the Web - FastCompany May 2008.
Relevant Links:
- DataPortability Home Page: http://www.dataportability.org
- DataPortability Wiki: http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/Home
- DataPortability Discussion Lists: http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability-public
- Monthly Process Reports: http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/DataPortability+progress+reports
- Data Portability Timeline: http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/Data+Portability+Timeline
- Press Room: http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/Press Room
- How to Get Involved: http://wiki.dataportability.org/display/dpmain/How+to+Get+Involved
Media Coverage:
- ReadWriteWeb - Red Hat Sends C&D to DataPortability Project
- The Economist - Everywhere and nowhere - March 19
- TechCrunch - Michael Arrington - FriendFeed, The Centralized Me, and Data Portability - March 30
- Chris Saad speech at NextWeb - April 4
About the DataPortability Project:
The purpose of the DataPortability project is to put existing data portability technologies, techniques, policies and initiatives in context in order to facilitate translation, education, advocacy and ultimately implementation. Portability is defined as both physically moving data or simply porting the context in which the data is used.
Find more information at www.dataportability.org
Links:
DataPortability Community Feeds:
- Del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/tag/dataportability
- Ma.gnolia:http://ma.gnolia.com/tags/dataportability
- Furl: http://www.furl.net/search?enc=UTF-8&chn=front&keyword=+dataportability&x=197&y=22
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This announcement was under embargo until 9am, 23 April 2008 PST