Murmurations is a distributed data sharing protocol to facilitate collaboration at scale.
How it works
Profiles
A Murmurations profile is a .json file which describes a ‘node’ on the Murmurations network.
Anyone can make a profile to describe a person, a project, an organisation, or any other entity.
Profiles are hosted anywhere online and their URLs are submitted to the Murmurations Network.
The Network
The Murmurations Network of indexes keeps a record of all the profile URLs and timestamps of when they were last updated.
When you update a profile you can resubmit its URL to update an index in the network.
Indexes are accessible to aggregators via an open API.
Aggregators
Aggregators query the indexes regularly for profile changes, enabling them to provide accurate and timely information in maps, directories and content aggregators, using the Murmurations WordPress aggregator plugin, or their own custom code.
Murmurations also enables other types of decentralised data sharing and content aggregation – read about what else you can build on Murmurations.
An introduction to Murmurations
The Murmurations WordPress Plugins
Benefits of Murmurations
Who's using Murmurations?
The following organisations have fully integrated the Murmurations Protocol so that their data is dynamically updated as part of the open data commons.
The following organisations have partially integrated the Murmurations Protocol so that their data is part of the open data commons.
What can you do with Murmurations?
Collaborative Mapping
Murmurations enables multiple maps and directories to be built from a shared, distributed data set.
Murmurations solves the problems of centralised maps and directories, managed by a single entity or person by:
- Distributing the effort of data collection
- Making data interoperable so it can power multiple maps and directories
- Providing a ‘last updated’ timestamp to show the age of every profile
- Distributing the effort of keeping data up to date
- Enabling Profile changes to be reflected on multiple maps and directories
- Improving data quality, reliability and usability
Read more about collaborative mapping
Explore the map
Find ethical businesses, Co-ops, Transition Towns, Eco Villages and other regeneratve economy projects and organisations in your area.
Add a profile
Add yourself and your projects to the network to promote your work. Share Offers and Wants and help grow the regenerative commons.
Create a custom map
Draw from, and add to, a large body of mapping data so you don’t need to start from scratch and your mapping efforts contribute to the commons.
What else can you do with Murmurations?
Murmurations enables a wide range of opportunities to improve decentralised collaboration in multiple sectors.
Support Murmurations
Murmurations is an unfunded volunteer-led project.
Please consider making a donation to support the development of better maps, directories and aggregators.
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To donate in ETH please contact us.
Get in Touch
We are especially interested to hear from organisations within the solidarity / mutual aid / collaborative / cooperative economy who share our ambitions to reveal the synergies within our movement – and would be interested in collaboration.