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<h2 id="personal-data-services">Personal Data Services</h2> <h3>Open Source</h3> <h4>Cloud</h4> <ul><li><a href="https://atsign.com/flip-the-internet">Atsign</a> - "P2P personal data management and sharing platform"</li> <li><a href="https://hieofone.com/">HIEofOne</a> - "Managing personal health information shouldn’t be so hard."</li> <li><a href="https://www.igrant.io/">iGrant.io</a> - "Infrastructure for data exchange and verification services with digital wallets"</li> <li><a href="https://www.selfresearch.org/">Self Research Institute</a> - "[T]he first full stack solution for human centric technology."</li></ul> <h3>Non-open source</h3> <ul><li><a href="https://citizenme.com">CitizenMe</a> - "The data platform for humanity"</li> <li><a href="https://datapal.me/">DataPal</a> - "DataPal is Personal Data Management Service; it works for you. It’s like a very smart digital filing cabinet. DataPal enables you to CONTROL your personal information and SHARE it with connections that you trust to use it responsibly."</li> <li><a href="https://dataswyft.io">Dataswyft</a> - "Privacy is a right. Ownership is a privilege."</li> <li><a href="https://digi.me">DigiMe</a> - "Private Sharing. Safely empowering you with your digital life for better value and services"</li> <li><a href="https://meeco.me/">Meeco</a> - ""The infrastructure for trusted personal data ecosystems"</li> <li><a href="https://mydex.org">Mydex</a> - empowers individuals to manage their lives through convenient, trustworthy access and control of their personal data and how it is used by them and others. This is achieved through interoperable API-based components for identity, consent and personal data management.</li> <li><a href="https://nxd.foundation/">NordXDataspace Foundation</a>, a trust anchor service for use with PDS providers</li></ul> <h2 id="personal-data-stores">Personal Data Stores</h2> <h3>Open Source Projects</h3> <h4>Cloud</h4> <ul><li><a href="https://www.hubofallthings.com/">(HAT) Hub-of-All-Things</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ownyourinfo.com/">Own Your Info</a> - "Your Personal Data Vault"</li> <li><a href="https://www.personium.io">Personium.io</a> - "An interconnectable open source PDS (Personal Data Store) server envisioning world wide web of protected data APIs."</li> <li><a href="https://www.solidproject.org">SOLID Project</a> - "Solid: Your data, your choice. Advancing Web standards to empower individuals and groups."</li> <li><a href="https://identity.foundation/decentralized-web-node/spec/">Decentralized Web Node</a> - "A Decentralized Web Node (DWN) is a data storage and message relay mechanism entities can use to locate public or private permissioned data related to a given Decentralized Identifier (DID).)"</li></ul> <h4>Cloud or on-device</h4> <ul><li><a href="https://www.byoda.org/">BYODA</a> - Bring Your Own Data and Algorithms: a data store supporting social media services, such as <a href="https://byo.tube/">BYO.Tube</a>.</li></ul> <h4>On-Device only</h4> <ul><li><a href="https://www.prifina.com/">Prifina</a> - a personal data engine that allows individuals get value from their data and empowers developers to build applications on top of user-held data.</li></ul> <h4>Inactive</h4> <ul><li><a href="https://data.fm">data.fm</a> - an open source, PDS with a centralized underlying attribute store as well as an API to enable bi-directional attribute updates from external websites and services. The APIs are based on standards and include <a href="/facts/WebDav/kwPgWnHD">WebDav</a>, <a href="/facts/SPARQL/XPP7pFDJ">SPARQL</a> and <a href="/facts/Linked_data/XKhE5aTQ">linked data</a>. Data formats exchanged include RDF, XML and <a href="/facts/JSON/bs1rUAhd">JSON</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://dogsheep.github.io/">Dogsheep Project</a> - Build your own Personal Data Warehouse. Dogsheep is a collection of tools (open-source) for personal analytics using SQLite and Datasette (Python).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li> <li>Higgins - Higgins is an open source project dedicated to giving individuals more control over their personal identity, profile and social network data. Includes a personal datastore.</li> <li>ID Hole - a dynamic and commercial consumer PDS that allows for the storing of personal data and the dynamic sharing of that data with other parties.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Locker_(software)/6krcCad8">The Locker Project</a> - an open source, <a href="/facts/JavaScript/XhhIIEsl">JavaScript</a>-based, PDS with a centralized underlying attribute store that exists on a person's personal computer as well as an API to support local applications.</li> <li>openPDS/SafeAnswers - openPDS/SafeAnswers allows users to collect, store, and give fine-grained access to their data all while protecting their privacy.</li> <li><a href="https://OwnYourInfo.com">OwnYourInfo</a> - a personal information storing and sharing application.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li></ul> <h3>Non-open source</h3> <h4>Cloud</h4> <ul><li><a href="https://cozy.io/en/">Cozy Cloud</a> - "A smart personal cloud to gather all your data"</li> <li><a href="https://inrupt.com">Inrupt</a> - "Harness the web as a data platform for everyone"</li></ul> <h4>On-device</h4> <ul><li><a href="https://snplab.io/?lang=en">SNPLab</a> - on-device MyData platform provider for combined personal data based on self-issued DID</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Data_vault_modeling/BltIRrj1">Data vault modeling</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Identity_management/D4Ukft0T">Identity management</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Privacy_by_design/A1DKL4PP">Privacy by design</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Vendor_relationship_management/ECTtzkB9">Vendor relationship management</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_IT_UnlockingValuePersonalData_CollectionUsage_Report_2013.pdf">"Unlocking the Value of Personal Data: From Collection to Usage"</a> (PDF). World Economic Forum. 2013. Retrieved 2016-01-08.</li> <li><a href="https://www.ctrl-shift.co.uk/news/2014/03/20/new-market-for-empowering-personal-data-services-will-transform-relationships-between-customers-and-brands/">New market for 'empowering personal data services "will transform relationships between customers and brands"</a> - Ctrl-Shift</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Langford, Joss. "Understanding MyData Operators" (PDF). mydata. Retrieved November 22, 2020. <a href="https://mydata.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/04/Understanding-Mydata-Operators-pages.pdf" target="_blank">https://mydata.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/04/Understanding-Mydata-Operators-pages.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Reed, Drummond. "Revision: "Personal Data Service" AND "Personal Data Store" Go Together". <a href="https://equalsdrummond.name/2010/10/06/revision-personal-data-service-and-personal-data-store/" target="_blank">https://equalsdrummond.name/2010/10/06/revision-personal-data-service-and-personal-data-store/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Reed, Drummond. "Out with "Personal Data Store", In with "Personal Data Service"". <a href="https://equalsdrummond.name/2010/10/03/out-with-personal-data-store-in-with-personal-data-service/" target="_blank">https://equalsdrummond.name/2010/10/03/out-with-personal-data-store-in-with-personal-data-service/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Trevithick, Paul. "Personal Data Service vs. Personal Data Store". <a href="https://www.incontextblog.com/?p=666" target="_blank">https://www.incontextblog.com/?p=666</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data". <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehouses/" target="_blank">https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehouses/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>John S. McKean (12 September 2014). Customer's New Voice: Extreme Relevancy and Experience through Volunteered Customer Information. Wiley. pp. 189–. ISBN 978-1-119-00436-3. <a href="978-1-119-00436-3" target="_blank">978-1-119-00436-3</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>