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The Case Against Data Lock-in.

The article urges that computer engineers should allow users to easily extract their data from Web-based services. The author labels this concept “data liberation” and discusses ways in which not locking-in users can be a beneficial selling point for a Web provider. Case studies involving products f...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 11; pp. 42 - 47
Main Authors: FITZPATRICK, BRIAN W., LUECK, J. J.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2010
Subjects:
Data extraction
Online data processing
Web-based user interfaces
Google Inc.
Programming languages
Web design
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article urges that computer engineers should allow users to easily extract their data from Web-based services. The author labels this concept “data liberation” and discusses ways in which not locking-in users can be a beneficial selling point for a Web provider. Case studies involving products from the Internet company Google are provided, and the most effective types of computer programming languages for data liberation are examined. Also discussed is the online media-sharing site Blogger.