Comments on: ODD and Import / Export

By: Marce

Marce — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:31:49 +0000

Can I export the social graph this way, too? or I must do other things for it’s possible.

Obviously, I think that in the class field we must put the user class, but the rest I don’t have clear

By: Marcus Povey

Marcus Povey — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:01:41 +0000

@Haris ODD primarily addresses a need we have to be able to move data which has yet to be defined between Elgg sites (elgg systems remember have plugins which add to the data that needs to be shifted about).

So, the answer is definitely yes between Elgg and Elgg classic sites.

The reason why we have opened the format up to people to discuss is that we are very keen to see others pick it up…. this may or may not happen. Some SN’s business models are based around keeping users so perhaps not for some, others probably.

Of course because the UUID points to a representation of a user, there’s no reason why they couldn’t mimic the effect you want without actually doing an import/export, and making the SN somewhat distributed.

By: Haris

Haris — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:55:52 +0000

So in real world, what are going to be benefits of the new functionality…will it be possible to get data from other SN sites imported into Elgg, like profile data etc…or?

By: Marcus Povey

Marcus Povey — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:57:18 +0000

Pictured here is a trivial example (exporting one blog post), mainly because a full export is quite a long file.

With the ODD implementation in Elgg you can move part or all of your data about between hosts, synchronise your account details, as well as produce an RSS like feed for things that RSS doesn’t cover.

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:17:49 +0000

I have a hard time getting what the value in that data is… what have you exported? And what are you importing? A list of previous blog posts?