Will data portability get Web 2.0 companies to allow you to {im,ex}port
some minor aspects of data, like your social graph, from one silo to
the next, in W3C standards like RDF or other, less rigorous but currently
more popular ones?
Does it matter providing the format is transparent and documented?
Or will it get hermetic Web 2.0 companies to
support the semantic web properly and stop being hermetic, by
allowing you to not just {im,ex}port, but query, delete, control the
visibility of, all your data?
How does the semantic web apply here? Unless you are implying upper case 'Semantic' and
SPARQL as a default query language (which I can't see strong evidence for on the DP site).
Reference?
Precisely - or are you under the illusion that Mozilla don't
distribute and promote proprietary software?
No, I'm not. It's possible that some people know about software freedom already
;)
In fact, my reference was to the backing out of RDF from Mozilla (and Gecko 1.9 in
general) in favour of SQLite.
I do not believe that web applications will adopt a standard, RDF-based API for data
export or interrogation/manipulation. I think it much more likely that we will see a
series of XML-based formats (without a unifying data model such as RDF) and a common
XML-based REST API.
Phil
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