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Working openlyon the Web
1. Have a corner of the web you control
2. Work openly by default
3. Ensure your data is readable by both humans and machines
Services change their privacy settings, close down, and are taken over by megacorps.Having a corner of the web you control means being able to better controlyour digital identity.
Also, nobody cares as much about your data as you do. The data you control isas timely and accurate as you have the time to make it.
Just as by using a microphone offline we can address a larger group of people than wewould be able to with our unamplified voice, so we can address audiences of differentscopes in our digital communications. An email reaches a much smaller numberof people than a blog post.
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Unless it contains sensitive information, publish your work to a public URLthat can be referenced by others. This allows ideas to build upon one another in a‘slow hunch’ fashion. Likewise, with documents and other digital artefacts,publish and then share rather than deal with version control issues by sendingthe document itself.
In addition, use standard protocols and formats when creating digital artefacts.This helps prevent vendor lock-in and supports the most open kinds of collaboration.
The web is made up of machines, but also humans using those machines.It’s a hybrid, a chimera. Publishing digital artefacts in forms both humansand machines understand allows for 'network effects’. An example of this ina message sent to a social network being re-shared thousands of times.
Use unique, memorable, well-structured URLs and tags. This enables dataand digital artefacts to be managed and curated efficiently. An example of thiswould be promoting an 'official’ hashtag at a conference or event.
Progress comes through discovery, serendipity and joining ideas together. Addingmetadata in the form of machine-readable data helps with others find andbuild on your work.
BELSHAW, Doug, 2014. Working openly on the web: a manifesto. literaci.es [online].[Accessed 11 December 2014]. Available from: http://literaci.es/working-openly-a-manifesto
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