Guest post: Introducing the Open Data Definition
This is a guest post by Ben Werdmuller who is the CTO of Curverider and one of the leads behind the Elgg open source social application engine. The Open Data Definition is a new format for the import and export of data from within social applications. Rather than an academic exercise, it’s driven by necessity; hopefully, software companies and individual developers who feel the same pressures will join the conversation and build it with us. Data portability is an important issue, and it needs to be solved with practical solutions that work in the real world. Last September, Marc Canter held the first Data Sharing Summit in an office on an industrial estate in Richmond. The two day event was…
