The Data Transfer Project, which was formed last year with the mission of creating an open-source, service-to-service data-portability platform, welcomed some heavy hitters Friday, as Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft are all on board.
The DTP described itself as “a collaboration of organizations committed to building a common framework with open-source code that can connect any two online service providers, enabling a seamless, direct, user-initiated portability of data between the two platforms.”
This is accomplished by using services’ existing application-programming interfaces and authorization mechanisms to access data, and then using service-specific adapters to transfer that data into a common format and, finally, to the new service’s API.
The DTP said on its website, “Users should be in control of their data on the web, and part of this is the ability to move their data.
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