Overview on open data portability and identity standards - the speech was held in German (but the slide notes at the bottom are in English)

1. Digitale Identität &
Datenportabilität im
Web
Cédric Hüsler
/ch/open Mitgliederversammlung - Zürich - März 2008
welcome

2. ÖV
• Wer fährt täglich mit ÖV?
• Nicht immer die gleiche Strecke?
• Wo schaut ihr die Verbindung nach?
questions on use of public transport

3. swisstrains.ch
Photo: Reto Fetz
use of public transport data other than intended by the operator - showing a visualization of
the rains in real-time

4. show travel time maps - like on http://www.mysociety.org/2006/travel-time-maps/ - an
experiment from the local.ch labs to answer local search based on public transport distance.

5. http://leumund.ch/2008/business/ohne-tram-nichts-los/
the importance of open data - my case for public transport - people expect good integration
and mash-up-ability (=getting more people using public transport)

6. Photo: Craig Allan
there is not public API to public transport data in switzerland - nether it is easy to integrate
the online timetable at sbb.ch into another website/blog/mail... making these data better
availabe would create a ecosystem of innovative solution that ultimately push for better use
of public transport.

7. http://data.un.org/
Photo: Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The UN is doing it better - they provide a central portal to get open data from various places
inside the organization. The user can choose different formats to reuse the data. Missing is a
live API to get the data (e.g. for mash-up)

8. RSS
Really Simple Syndication
OPML
Outline Processor Markup Language
Two standards that are established in the data syndication arena - explaining history and
current use of RSS/Atom and OPML. If data needs to be provided to an unknown receiver - we
should always check if we can use well known open standards as base - that makes the
integration easier on the receiving end.

9. Photo: cambiodefractal
and the end of the data - it’s all about personal productivity - we (as human) need to
juggling a lot of tasks.. - technology that help us to improve that has great chances to get
adopted. Want to focus on personal productivity in the new few examples..

10. ICS
How to get data from a website into our real-time -> calendar/address book/mobile phone...
- back to public transport - showing sbb.ch example - they added ICS export last year.. a
great extension - finally a semantic way reuse the data on the screen..
I used to do a photo of the screen with my mobile phone in order to reuse the data on-the-
go!

11. instead of photo/ics... - we could use different encoding methodes to transport data over the
screen to different device - like mobile phone - example with QR Code

12. Reuse Web Data http://tel.local.ch/
Do Microformats Demo in Firefox 3 and Operator - transport data from website to other
website or desktop..

13. http://dbpedia.org
http://wikipedia.aksw.org/index.php?qid=13
Show example how people try hard to extract semantics out wikipedia.

14. Microformats RDF
Resource Description Framework
Explain the Semantic Web “light”

15. <p class=quot;textquot;>namics ag</p>
<p class=quot;textquot;>Teufenerstrasse 19</p>
<p class=quot;textquot;>CH-9000 St. Gallen</p>
<p class=quot;textquot;>&nbsp;</p>
<p class=quot;textquot;>t +41 [0] 71 228 67 77</p>
<p class=quot;textquot;>f +41 [0] 71 228 67 88</p>
<p class=quot;textquot;>&nbsp;</p>
<p class=quot;textquot;><a href=quot;mailto:info@na...quot;>info@na...</a>
Example of hCard Microformats - showing simplicity of the technique

16. <div class=quot;vcardquot;>
<p class=quot;text fn orgquot;>namics ag</p>
<p class=quot;text street-addressquot;>Teufenerstrasse 19</p>
<p class=quot;textquot;>
<abbr class=quot;country-namequot; title=quot;Switzerlandquot;>CH</abbr>-
<span class=quot;postal-codequot;>9000</span>
<span class=quot;localityquot;>St. Gallen<span>
</p>
<p class=quot;textquot;>&nbsp;</p>
<p class=quot;text telquot;>
<abbr class=quot;typequot; title=quot;voicequot;>t</abbr>
<span class=quot;valuequot;>+41 [0] 71 228 67 77</span>
</p>
<p class=quot;text telquot;>
<abbr class=quot;typequot; title=quot;faxquot;>f</abbr>
<span class=quot;valuequot;>+41 [0] 71 228 67 88</span>
</p>
<p class=quot;textquot;>&nbsp;</p>
<p class=quot;textquot;><a href=quot;mailto:info@na...quot; class=quot;mailquot;>info@na...</a>
</div>
Example of hCard Microformats - showing simplicity of the technique

17. Photo: Demetrius González
Digital Identity - we start to collect a lot of data about ourselves on the web (various websites
of choice) - but these data are not connected

18. Nokia Zimbra iPod
N95 Mail Server Classic
Mac Book .Mac Mac Mini
Pro Server @ Home
Sync Adressen, Events, ...
in the proprietari world - showing example of Apple iSync - it works great.. we can sync data
between different systems and reuse them easily.. - but what is with the web?

19. OAuth
App-to-app Authentication
explain the base for data portability of privat data is authentication and security - spotlight
on two standards..

20. http://www.wishlistr.com/
show an OpenID demo and explain how it works.. - SSO, decentralized, attribute exchange...

21. Disclaimer: Facebook does NOT use OAuth!
Website-zu-Website Login!
show use case for OAuth - get data from one website into another one.. without leaving the
username and password on the site that wants the data..

22. Desktop zu Web - Beispiel: jingproject.com
Disclaimer: Flickr does NOT use OAuth!
show example between desktop app and website..

23. Social Graph
http://socialgraph-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/findcontacts.html
Photo: Gustavo
explain the experiments to extract the social graph from the “normal” web... - using links
(with Microformats)..

24. Photo: David Hogan
but what about the rights? - the law? using data is always connected to what I’m allowed to
do with them...

25. Original auf Flickr
Weiterverwendung
explain the Flickr picture reuse via Creative Commons.. - my photo that appears on two
football sites...

26. CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0
showing another example - explaining the idea of creative commons..

27. CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0
showing another example - explaining the idea of creative commons..

28. Tipp
http://flickr.com/search/advanced/
show the Flickr Advance search - explain how I’m search pictures for the presentations..

29. Open licenses do not stop in the web - they even find their way into very commercial spaces
- like the music industry - explain the example from NIN

30. Photo: Laura Kishimoto
final slide - the combinations of the data portability standards will help us to build a simpler
web - and enable new innovation and personal productivity

31. Visit: dataportability.org
Photo: Laura Kishimoto
final slide - the combinations of the data portability standards will help us to build a simpler
web - and enable new innovation and personal productivity