- XDI
XDI (XRI Data Interchange) is a generalized, extensible service for sharing, linking, and synchronizing data over the Internet and other data networks using
XML documents andXRI s (Extensible Resource Identifiers). The XDI protocol is under development by the OASIS [http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi XDI Technical Committee] .The goal of XDI is to enable data from any data source to be identified, described, linked, and synchronized into an active, machine-readable
dataweb just as content from any content source can be linked into the human-readable Web today. Along with a single, common XML format for data identification and description, the other key piece of XDI islink contract s that enable control over the authority, security, privacy, and rights of shared data to be expressed in a standard machine-readable format.This approach to a globally-distributed data sharing network models the real-world mechanism of
social contract s and legal contracts that bind civilized people and organizations in the real world today. Thus XDI can be a key enabler of theSocial Web . It can also support a new legal concept, [http://www.virtualrights.org Virtual Rights] , which are based on a new legal entity, the "virtual identity", and a new fundamental right: "to have or not to have a virtual identity".Public services based on the OASIS [http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xri XRI] and [http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi XDI] specifications are under development by an international non-profit organization, [http://www.xdi.org XDI.ORG] .
ee also
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XRI
*XRDS
*I-name
*I-number
*I-broker
*Dataweb
*Social Web
*OpenID
*Higgins project External links
* [http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xdi/XdiRdfModel OASIS XDI TC wiki page with links to documents explaining the XDI RDF model]
* [http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi OASIS XDI Technical Committee]
* [http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xri OASIS XRI Technical Committee]
* [http://www.xdi.org XDI.ORG]
* [http://journal.planetwork.net/article.php?lab=reed0704 The Social Web: Creating An Open Social Network with XDI] in the [http://journal.planetwork.net Planetwork Journal] .
* [http://www.virtualrights.org Virtual Rights]
* [http://xditao.blogspot.com Andy Dale's blog about XRI, XDI and Identity]Implementations
* [http://wiki.eclipse.org/XDI4j XDI reference implementation in Java]
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