People keep making that mistake, data portability is not just about the social graph, its so much more.
>From that link you sent, here's the slides - >http://www.slideshare.net/cubicgarden/data-portability-for-educators Data Accessability: The ability to address each element of my data with a URI when it is in the web app.... * Slide 53: Perma-linked Media Data Visibility: The ability of the user to control the visibility of the data in their account, so that the web app vendor does not set the default visibility policy, the user does.... * Slide 65: Sharing of content Data Removal: On account termination by the user, or by the vendor, all data in the user account must be deleted (possibly after a waiting period).... * Slide 47: Deleting all traces of yourself Data Ownership: Data created/uploaded by the user belongs to the user, and only to the user; it is not automatically “co- owned by the web app vendor with all rights given in perpetuity,” as is so prevalent today.... * Slide 29: We want to licence our content Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [] private; [x] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage BC5 C3, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TP email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Crossland Sent: 03 March 2008 17:03 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] Data Portability? "We're being spoon-fed baby food when we hunger for steak... the bits of meat that slip through are pre-chewed and tasteless." ;-) Reading around DP criticism, I see http://gigaom.com/2008/02/06/data-property-rights-not-portability/ which echoes my concerns. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
