Data Portability

BlogTalk 2009 (6th International Social Software Conference) - Call for Proposals - September 1st and 2nd - Jeju, Korea

Posted Fri, 05/29/2009 - 15:11 by John Breslin

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BlogTalk 2009
The 6th International Conf. on Social Software
September 1st and 2nd, 2009
Jeju Island, Korea

Overview

"The Social Semantic Web": now available to pre-order from Springer and Amazon

Posted Mon, 03/23/2009 - 20:49 by John Breslin

Our forthcoming book entitled "The Social Semantic Web", to be published by Springer in Autumn 2009, is now available to pre-order from both Springer and Amazon.

Presentation slides on the Social Semantic Web (from last night's IET/CompSoc talk)

Posted Fri, 11/28/2008 - 20:43 by John Breslin

Here are my slides from last night's joint talk for the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Computer Society...

Prize winners visualise Irish online life in the boards.ie SIOC Data Competition

Posted Wed, 11/26/2008 - 22:26 by John Breslin

The winners of the SIOC (pronounced "shock") data competition being run by DERI at the National University of Ireland, Galway have been announced. The competition ran from September to October 2008, and the brief was to produce an interesting creation based on a data set of discussion posts reflecting ten years of Irish online life from boards.ie, Ireland's largest community website.

"The distributed social web"

Posted Thu, 11/20/2008 - 20:59 by John Breslin

I read an interesting Gartner talk summary by Ross Dawson about the distributed social web, via another blog post by Chris Saad. Building blocks like OpenID, oAuth and microformats are mentioned in both posts, and I wanted to pipe up on behalf of the Semantic Web (if I may)...

Tales from the SIOC-o-sphere #8

Posted Wed, 10/01/2008 - 13:07 by John Breslin

20080403a.png It's time for another installment from the world of SIOC!

My week in California

Posted Wed, 05/28/2008 - 18:57 by John Breslin

I had a nice productive week in San Jose / San Francisco last week, where I attended the Semantic Technologies Conference 2008 (SemTech 2008) and some other nearby events. SemTech 2008 had a record attendance of over 1000 people, and it was great to meet up with old friends and new (some of whom I had often conversed with online but not in real life).

SemTech 2008: Nova Spivack (Radar Networks) - "Experience from the Cutting Edge of the Semantic Market"

Posted Wed, 05/21/2008 - 01:38 by John Breslin

Nova Spivack of Radar Networks gave a keynote talk at the 2008 Semantic Technologies Conference this morning.

SemTech sessions related to data portability / IEEE Computing article on portable data

Posted Mon, 05/19/2008 - 08:38 by John Breslin

It's been a busy few weeks for DataPortability.org with announcements from many sides including Google (Friend Connect), Facebook (Connect) and MySpace (Data Availability). Next week, the Semantic Technologies Conference will be held in San Jose, California, and you can bet that discussions around the need for portable data will be scattered throughout.

  • On Monday, Stefan, Uldis and I will present a tutorial (which will also cover data portability aspects of ontologies such as SIOC and FOAF) entitled "The Future of Social Networks: The Need for Semantics".
  • On Monday evening at 8 PM, there will be an informal meetup of some DataPortability.org people in the Fairmont Hotel's Lobby Lounge, so if you have an interest in data portability, feel free to join us.
  • On Tuesday at 7:15 AM, I will chair a "Data Portability Interest Group" meeting. Attendees will include Chris Saad, Daniela Barbosa, Henry Story, and yours truly.
  • Then on Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 PM, Jim Benedetto, Senior Vice President of Technology with MySpace will talk about "Data Availability at MySpace".

Last month, IEEE Computing published an article by Karen Heyman entitled "The Move to Make Social Data Portable". I was interviewed for the piece along with Michael Pick (social media expert), Duncan Riley (b5media), John McCrea (Plaxo), Craig Knoblock (ISI), Chris Saad (DataPortability.org), Dave Treadwell (Microsoft), Kevin Marks (Google), Chris Kelly (Facebook), Marc Canter (Broadband Mechanics), and Bill Washburn (OpenID). Technology solutions mentioned included RSS, OpenID, OAuth, microformats, RDF, APML, SIOC and FOAF. Here are my original answers to Karen's questions.