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I'm never one for creating new artistic things, so I need some inspiration. I've created a new site http://www.data-freedom.org/ There are other sites out there about data freedom that concentrate on civil liberties, privacy, human rights, Freedom of Information Act(s), Data Protection etc. That's not my emphasis. My site is about the freedom for *users* to access application data in whatever manner they need. "Imagine being able to liberate your data from one application and make it seamlessly available on another. Imagine being able to liberate your data from one *platform* and make it seamlessly available on another. Data Freedom is all about granting such wishes. Rather than reverse engineering specific troublesome file formats, data-freedom concentrates on encouraging the development of implementation architectures and conceptual foundations to synchronise arbitrary tree-structured data. The goal is to encourage generic data handling using extensible mechanisms that are inter-related to allow free exchange of data between disparate applications, systems, architectures and platforms. Each implementation is free to choose the most suitable method of providing data and receiving data. All that is required is that the method chosen is as open, extensible and generic as possible. Naturally, the eXtensible Markup Language - XML - features strongly." It's about data modelling, data mining, data abstraction and data exchange. The freedom for users to use their own data outside the limits of the application. "First Principles. Programs need persistent storage. Each program is free to create their own storage methods and rules. Users want to exchange data between programs. Data-Freedoms Programs should make the user's data available to any process that requests it. This data is free and the application has no rights over how it can be used. Programs can use proprietary, binary or custom backends provided no data essential to the re-creation of the original is omitted from the free user data." http://www.data-freedom.org/explain.html The Data-Freedoms above are developments of the GPL and there is a single proviso, as there is in the GPL. If the application writes itself into the data, then the data is not free, it is controlled by whatever licence controls the application. In the majority of cases, this does not apply. It's about fighting application lock-in on all platforms - because data is locked into GNU applications as well as proprietary ones. I'm looking for banners, (web page size, 200x60 etc.), logos, icons, buttons that people can put on their own website like the Valid HTML ones. (88x31 or so). Things like these: http://www.gnucash.org/en/promote.phtml Naturally, I'm also looking for assistance, developers, testers, contributions, other projects in this area, tips, hints, whatever. The current site is as bare as can be but I hope it gets across the idea that we have free software, what we now need is free data. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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