[projectvrm] Open Source Welcomer Framework now available

[Kevin Cox < >]

You can read about the Welcomer Framework at http://www.welcomer.me/welcomer-framework/

If you are interested in finding out more or in using the Framework or integrating with the Framework or contributing to it then please contact us.

It is a simple system.  We could call it the Minimum Viable Framework for storing and accessing personal data.  It uses a minimal set of ideas from Phil Windley's The Live Web. 

Kevin

From the reference above

A personal cloud is defined as personal data stored in the cloud.

Whenever an application uses the Welcomer Framework they either create a new personal cloud for a person or they add a component to an existing personal cloud.  In the WelcomeAboard application the email address is the identifier that distinguishes whether it is a new personal cloud or an addition.  The individual will be able to have the ability to combine personal clouds with different identifiers, if they so wish.

Conceptually there is no difference between a person and an organisation and it does not matter where the data is stored.

A person's identities are their personal clouds.  There is no token or central registry that identifies a person.  The person is identified by their online presence.

When personal information is moved from one data store to another it is always done with the person present or under their explicit instruction.

Without an application there can be no personal cloud and without a personal cloud there is no online identity.