[GNU/consensus] Free Data

[marc]

REPORT

(To foster more intial discussion)

To get to a free data standard, i see some philosophical troubles, these 
are:

0. bring personal data (i.e. mydata.org standards) to a further degree 
of freedom, since without a more integral freedom, it wouldn't either be 
really "personal"

1. kind-of dislike on data analytics software (i.e. in akasha.world). 
patch:  i'd like to choose my analysers, perhaps is techy costy, but 
that is very different than analitics being bad by principles.


2. the monsterizing of the concept of "big data". patch: which ammount 
of data becomes big-bad?. i'd like to have the option to globalize my 
data (i.e. this message) while we need developing more optional ways for 
a more local sharing of data. these 2 options shouldn't be rivalry 
interpreted.

Big data is not the problem, the problem is not-free data (impying in a 
part of it that there is not a well local sharing of data either that 
needs to be developed for dat being free).

btw, i feel that lots of free data could do a lot good to us all (i have 
an uthopic spec for this too if you want, technouthopical scenarios 
documentation are good ways to be more "open").



3. if we don't do free data standards, we may be only spectator 
journalists or criticists reporting issues about data mismanagement,
they can also helps us for each one developing better apps ourselves.




PROPOSAL

(To be further polished)


Free Data Principles


1. Free will: Ownership and Privacy
(ps. can have another name for not being too broad or looking like too 
much as a neo-darwinist stand, while this is not)


2. Free content: Standards and Categories
(ps. metadata, plurality of design, accesibility, even content types or 
features)


3. Free analysis: Crawling and Suggestions
(ps. qiyfoundation.org has some docs about it, but easily improvable)


4. Free network: Storage and Service
(ps. secushare.org has a lot of nice standards in their comparission 
tables)


5. Free culture: Evolution and Sharing
(ps. can be merged within the Free will category, where being able to 
select the free culture licenses should be a practice in it, or applied 
to the product provider extraction, manufacture and deliver practices. 
in this sense, free making could be a better name maybe, since implies 
extraction and manufacture, and so deliver could be the delivered 
network itself)






PERSONAL NOTE

Maybe there is some better of this effort somewhere else, idk.

I'd like them this order, since an app could have an offline unnetworked 
analizer software, and so if it coplies with 1,2,3 it will be free data 
anyway,

These standards should be metrics for apps, perhaps with some required 
minimal things to comply with overall or at each category to qualify as 
metricable, but this is an aesthteic issue (i.e. would 20% of compliance 
with the free data be free? or we need 50% for then call it minimal free 
data, where 75% would be quite free data?)

However, this message has a very drafty data, feel free to add your data 
to it, to make it freer content itself.