A
group of scientists in Britain have developed a hyperdata Web browser that will
make it easier for people to access and use online data about themselves.
Called
RUMPEL, the browser was developed at WMG, University of Warwick, with funding
provided by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
The
browser allows users to look at their private and secure “personal data
wardrobe” - called a Hub-of-all-Things or HAT — which organises data
about them on the Internet, and control, combine or share it as they wish.
RUMPEL
will run on all major operating systems and is due to be released this month.
There
are plans to incorporate automated and personalised suggestions, and prompts
and reminders based on users' needs, habits and lifestyles.
Professor
Irene Ng of WMG, University of Warwick, who has led RUMPEL's development, was
quoted as saying: “It’s time for people to claim their data from the Internet.
The aim of RUMPEL is to empower users and enable them to be served by the ocean
of data about them that's stored in all kinds of places online, so that it
benefits them and not just the businesses and organisations that harvest it.
“The
strapline 'Your Data, Your Way' reflects our determination to let people lead
smarter lives by bringing their digital lives back under their own control.”
RUMPEL
will be released under an open source licence, the Mozilla Public Licence,
managed by the HAT Community Foundation and available via the RUMPEL
repository on GitHub.
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