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Open Standards for Identity and Datasharing
I have talking about this throughout the conference.
Free the Data
Data interoperability and Open Standards so that people who own the data have control.
Planetwork has been working on this for a while - we published the Augemented Social Network white paper in 2003 about the vision of the Social Web. Members of our community have been involved in the development of and the first implementations of two Open Standards at OASIS (one of the three internet standards bodies - IETF and W3C being the others). eXtensible Resource Identifier XRI and XRI Data Interchange XDI. Datasharing creates the Data Web. Boeing and Visa are involved in these efforts along with civil society interested parties. (xri) i-names is a namespace for people and organizations governed by XDI.org. The first major implementation is being done in a large international women's nonprofit OoTao is a company leading the way in implementing in this space.
Standards for data sharing are critical to solve the problem of multiple databases within one organization - and then can support cooperation between organizations. Empowring people to manage their relationships with civil society organization can reduce the cost of member relations and support sharing of accurate data.
There is awareness of the idea of open standards in the vendor community (Kintera, Convino, GetActive, Care2, CiviCRM/CivicSpace, Democracy in Action)- if you want them to use open standards them ask them for it.
Planetwork is working on bringing together funds do build out open source open standards based infrastructure in this area - the 1Society project.
The Identity Commons is re-forming to create a common space for all the groups emerging addressing critical issues in this space - the Internet Identity Workshop, Identity Gang (mailing list) Reputation Gang (mailing list). The reputation gang is working on solving the issues around creating trust acrross service providers in an open network of identity service providers.
I blog about these issues at Identity Woman. Feel free to conatct me to get connected into these community efforts.
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xml standards for tagging
Yes, Kaliya!
I was struck yesterday in the tagging and rss feed workshop about how crazy it seemed to be doing all this tagging and creation of metadata in a personalized and idiosyncratic way that would not make the tags useable in other settings that focus on metadata and tagging (eg, libraries).
An effort to create and distribute simple xml-compliant standards for at least first level tagging would make so much sense, though i am not sure the average npo would see the point.
Are your efforts including this kind of tagging, or just focusing on identity tagging and sharing (an important issue of its own)?
Cheers, Sandra Whisler