[CivicAccess-discuss] DIG - Data Independence Guidelines

[Karl Dubost]

Le 17 mai 2011 à 10:05, Tracey P. Lauriault a écrit :
> not overlap with OGC - http://www.opengeospatial.org/, kinda the data standards guru's in the geo world?

Probably.
I should write a user story on the top of the document, a story which has already happened many times. Example: Magnolia bookmarking service which pooof disappeared from the network.

Imagine a user putting his/her own photo on Flickr after years a few gigas are there. Not only the photos, but the conversation, the tagging, the geolocation, etc. How do you make it possible for people to backup these data, to export them, to delete them. That the export is in a documented format, etc. 

There will be loss, be the UI, the community of friends, etc, the goal is not to say "no more catastrophes", the goal is to say how do we evaluate the risks, and how do we make it possible for people to have a better understanding of their own data. The goal is to empower a bit more people. 

Another example: For whoever has a kindle right now, how do you export all the data generated around the books you have read, annotations, quotes, etc in a documented format which could be parsed by a script. :)

As I said nothing utopian. :) just practical recipes.

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Karl Dubost
Montréal, QC, Canada
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