Google, Six Apart, LinkedIn, Facebook, Flickr
APML, OpenID, microformats, RDF, RSS, OPML, OAuth
What do these have in common?
They are all, either as organizations, or as technologies/standards, part of DataPortability.org. The internet as we know it today, functions because of simple standards that allow communication and transfer. As our web becomes that much more central to our lives, to our information, being able to move that data, being able to access that data, being able to extract information from that data becomes essential. Michael Pick has put together an excellent video highlight what data portability is all about
DataPortability – Connect, Control, Share, Remix from Smashcut Media on Vimeo.
I am going to call out scientists, especially scientists who develop web services across the world (including us at Bioscreencast), to think about the concepts and philosophies that are part of the data portability movement, and the manifesto published by David Recordon. We should be active members of these efforts. No, we should be leading any such efforts. What information is more valuable, more important, than scientific information?
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