[CivicAccess-discuss] DIG - Data Independence Guidelines

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

Now that makes more sense!

That happened to me when a photosharing site that I was using went down.  I
lost many great photos and even some projects!

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Karl Dubost <karl at la-grange.net> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> --
>  Karl Dubost
> Montréal, QC, Canada
> http://www.la-grange.net/karl/
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