An interesting discussion about Data Portability

If you've been following the whole Data Portability scene with any interest, there's an interesting discussion going on here that is worth reading / participating in. Obviously there's still a lot of disagreement about certain aspects of this whole thing, but hopefully things will coalesce sooner than later and the discussion will become even more pragmatic.

On a related note, I'm tentatively scheduled to present on the subject of Data Portability at next month's Refresh The Triangle event, so any Triangle area folks who are interested, please do come out and take part.

In the mean-time, I have to do some catching up with what the current areas of focus, themes, patterns, etc. are among the players in this space. I'm a little behind on reading the DP list, so it's time to get back into that conversation a little more earnestly. And even more so if OpenQabal is going to implement "Data Portability" (which, of course, depends on what that turns out to be!).

Also, the technical documentation section of the dataportability.org site has some interesting reading for anybody who's trying to understand what this whole discussion is about. In particular, see the use cases section.

Syndicated 2008-03-30 07:03:05 (Updated 2008-03-30 07:13:34) from openqabal