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On Friday, July 20, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter announced the launch of the Data Transfer Project (DTP), a joint initiative to create a common open-source, service-to-service data portability platform that will allow their users - and users of other participating sites and services - to easily transfer their data from one platform to another. This is the first major initiative developed by the big names of the World-Wide Web from the day when the GDPR came into force with its Right to Data Portability (Article 20). The project might be worth noticing for at least two reasons: It demonstrates that the market-leading platforms which built their services upon collecting personal data can - and should - implement the data portability rights through the creation of a unique, shared interface. The open-source mindset of the whole project, which is without a doubt a great opportunity for any other platform to adopt the same technology without additional costs, giving the users the chance to exercise their rights through a centralized interface, which will be also (hopefully) easy to understand and, therefore, to use. The project was announced for the first time by Google in this post on the opensource.googleblog.com website, the blog dedicated to the latest open-source news and projects released by the Mountain View giant: the project description explains how the data transfer will take place through a service-to-service connections between the affected parties, without having the end users worry about downloading and uploading their data. The DTP project was also mentioned in this Microsoft post on their EU Policy Blog, where the Redmond company extended the invite to other companies in order to grant the users a common experience and give birth to a widely-adopted data portability standard, arguably providing the users with a better competition regime between the various service providers. The message definitely seems aimed to the only missing big player: we're obviously talking about Apple, which hasn't released any practical info regarding the GDPR's Data Portability compliance as of today other than what's already covered by their Data & Privacy Portal released on May, 23th: we sincerely hope that the Cupertino company will fill that gap in the next few days, possibly even enlisting their services to the DTP initiative. For additional info, we strongly suggest to take a look at the following online resources: Data Transfer Project - Overview and Fundamentals (aka DTP Overview). Data Transfer Project - From Theory to Practice (aka Google Whitepaper v4),  where Google explains their implementation approach to DTP with the intent of integrating it with their previous data-management projects such as the Data Liberation Front  (2007) and Google Takeout (2011). Data Transfer Project - Source Code on GitHub, the open-source repository containing the DTP updated source code.   Read the full article

Facebook, Google, Microsoft e Twitter hanno annunciato venerdì 20 luglio l'avvio del progetto Data Transfer Project (DTP), un'iniziativa sviluppata in modo congiunto per creare una piattaforma comune di portabilità dei dati open-source e service-to-service che consentirà ai loro utenti - e agli utenti degli altri siti e servizi aderenti - di trasferire facilmente i propri dati da una piattaforma all'altra. Si tratta senza ombra di dubbio della prima grande iniziativa sviluppata dai big della rete a seguito dell'entrata in vigore del GDPR e del Diritto alla Portabilità dei Dati (art. 20 - Right to Data Portability). Il progtto è motivo di particolare interesse per almeno due motivi: La dimostrazione di come sia possibile - e auspicabile - che le piattaforme leader di mercato che basano i propri servizi sulla raccolta dei dati personali diano attuazione alla normativa attraverso la creazione di interfacce e tavoli di lavoro comuni. La natura open-source dell'iniziativa, che lascia ben sperare nella possibilità che altre piattaforme adottino la medesima tecnologia e contribuiscano a creare una rete interconnessa, a tutto vantaggio degli utenti finali che, auspicabilmente, avranno la possibilità di esercitare i propri diritti attraverso un'interfaccia centralizzata, semplice da comprendere e da utilizzare. Il progetto è stato annunciato per la prima volta da Google all'interno di questo post sul sito opensource.googleblog.com, il blog dedicato alle ultime notizie a tema open-source dell'azienda di Mountain View: nella descrizione del progetto viene chiarito come il trasferimento dei dati avverrà in modalità service-to-service, ovvero senza che gli utenti debbano farsi carico delle attività di download e upload. La notizia è stata rilanciata anche da Microsoft in questo post pubblicato sul suo EU Policy Blog, ribadendo l'invito ad altre aziende a partecipare al progetto al fine di garantire  agli utenti uno standard di settore per la portabilità dei dati, a tutto vantaggio di un miglior regime di concorrenza tra i vari provider di servizi. Difficile immaginare che questi inviti non siano rivolti anche e soprattutto all'unica big di settore che manca ancora all'appello: parliamo ovviamente di Apple, dalle cui segrete stanze non traspare ancora alcuna notizia in merito agli adeguamenti previsti dal GDPR in merito alla Data Portability: ci auguriamo che questa mancanza venga colmata nei prossimi giorni, magari proprio attraverso l'adesione dell'azienda di Cupertino a questa promettente iniziativa. Per maggiori informazioni, consigliamo di dare un'occhiata ai seguenti link: Data Transfer Project - Overview and Fundamentals (aka DTP Overview), dove sono discritti i principi generali. Data Transfer Project - From Theory to Practice (aka Google Whitepaper v4), dove sono descritte le modalità implementative a cura di Google, che rappresentano una evoluzione delle precedenti iniziative sulla portabilità dei dati note come Data Liberation Front  (2007) e Google Takeout (2011). Data Transfer Project - Source Code on GitHub, il repository open-source che contiene il codice sorgente della piattaforma, costantemente aggiornato.     Read the full article

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> "If the interaction between person and hypertext could be so intuitive that the machine-readable information space gave an accurate representation of the state of people's thoughts, interactions, and work patterns, then machine analysis could become a very powerful management tool, seeing patterns in our work and facilitating our working together through the typical problems which beset the management of large organizations." Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) in 1996 Now, ... > "Fifteen years later, the Semantic Web is used in a variety of fields from art museums informatics to breast cancer research. Although the global implementation of the Semantic Web vision may be years from becoming a reality, many sophisticated IT departments are increasingly adopting semantic standards and migrating to semantic technology-based products to achieve the same benefits in their enterprise that the Semantic Web delivers to the Web. This technological trend will continue to penetrate industries as diverse as finance, medical devices, telecommunications, life sciences, and the intelligence community. In fact, I believe that 2012 will be the year of the Semantic Web." [Steve Hamby, in Huffington Post article "2012: The Year of the Semantic Web"](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-hamby/semantic-web-technology_b_1228883.html) Humbly describes 3 usecases in the fields of telecommunications, enterprises and museum informatics. Maybe this sounds boring in your ears but these are good examples how Semantic Web technology is adapted in industry and research, without that you know it. Even a fresh startup like [Hojoki](http://hojoki.com/), recently funded with a lot of seed money, are internally using triple stores and SPARQL endpoints to deliver what you see. On the grassroots level I see a lot of interesting usecases for Semantic Web technology, like improving data portability, or creating a decentralized Social Web. Just start with your FOAF profile and WebID, using [Foafpress](http://foafpress.org/) to visualize your data. Joining the Semantic Web is easy! I really don't know if 2012 is the big year for SemWeb but I hope that the outer perception of the Semantic Web and its technologies will continue shifting to a positive view. In the past, a lot of people tended to criticize because often they relate it to the old nerdy researcher who cannot describe it to "normal" people, technology what is not easy to use, or ontologies nobody can't understand :) All these things are part of the Semantic Web and its history but recently it moves to usecases what you can adopt very fast, e.g. [schema.org to describe your content via microdata](http://schema.org/). In the end, the Semantic Web and its view on data is the old and new vision of the web!