Digital Media
Another aspect of personalization is the increasing prevalence of open data on the Web. Many companies make their data available on the Web via APIs, web services, and open data standards. Ordnance Survey Open Data This data is structured to allow it to be inter-connected and re-used by third parties.
Data available from a user’s personal social graph can be accessed by third-party application software to be suited to fit the personalized web page or information appliance.
Current open data standards on the Web include:
- DataPortability
- OpenID
- OpenSocial
- Attention Profiling Mark-up Language (APML)
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