Why the data should be released in the Public Domain
After discussing with a friend of mine I was convinced to require everybody who upload any data in MMM to also release it into the Public Domain. This will permit a few things:
a) In any case any data that is uploaded in Mind My Map can be easily downloaded. Also the xml data can be regenerated from the mindmap. So I really don’t want to give to the user an impression of a security that is not there.
b) I want to use the xml data to calculate the distance between mindmaps as I have described in my English blog. It is already one year and a half that I have described those algorithms and no one has stepped forward to use them. So I will.
c) If the data is in the Public Domain, then anybody can use anybody else data. And the sitebecomes a big toy store. Yeah! Anybody can make maps from anybody else xml data. And for now only standard map are available, but soon…
So I had to work to change the data structure. Now each map and data stores the creator. And then you have a list of the data that you have decided to remember. Creating some data automatically makes you remember it. And the user page now only shows the data you have chosen to remember.
This brings up a few problem:
when should the data be deleted, if ever?
should you ‘remember’ any new map that has been generated from data you have created or remember?
Hmm…
Not to make errors, for now no data gets deleted (I took away the buttons). But eventually I will need to reorganise them.
And we also have the first user who uploaded uncorrupded data. Welcome to janzo. Using his data I made a really pretty map.