Oliver Sylvester-Bradley

We have now launched an updated Murmurations Node Plugin which makes it simple for WordPress users to share multiple Profiles.  Why is this useful? Murmurations provides an open source protocol for sharing data in interoperable formats. So, by creating Profiles your data is added to a growing commons of open source data which anyone can use to build maps and directories. There are currently more than 30,000 nodes registered in… Read More »Murmurations WordPress Plugins for open source mapping and data sharing

Have you ever built an online community or website but struggled to attract users? Have you ever built a map or directory but struggled to keep it up to date? Are you fed up with being forced to recreate your profile on every new site you join? Richard Bartlett, a co-founder of Loomio, says: “I spent a decade and a million bucks to conclude the only really critical gap in… Read More »Murmurations Demo video – Synchronising data across platforms

The Collaborative Technology Alliance exists to facilitate collaboration, coordination, and community among platform designers, developers, and stewards who are committed to building social technology that benefits both people and planet. Over the last few months The CTA has been running a Collaborathon, to award funding to projects which further their objectives – and one of the proposed projects is an ecosystem map of CTA Members. The plan for the project… Read More »Ecosystems mapping via Murmurations

You can use MurmurMaps to create quick and easy custom maps, which you can embed on any other website inside an iframe. The filtering options have corresponding URL parameters, which make it very easy to link to, and embed specific maps on your own website. Here’s some demos: Community Exchange Projects around the world The map below shows Community Exchange groups around the world which trade via barter, time and… Read More »Embedded maps

Murmurations, the regenerative economy decentralised mapping protocol, is gathering pace. We now have more entries in the Index and Transition Towns and the EcoRestoration Alliance are working on setting up APIs to add all of the nodes from their maps, so the data is getting more comprehensive. The team have built an excellent map-based Index explorer, which renders all of the 30,000 nodes in the Index with geo coordinates on… Read More »Regenerative economy mapping

Murmurations is an open source decentralised data sharing project, which provides a flexible approach to ontology to accelerate the use of interoperable, composable data. The ultimate aim of Murmurations is to accelerate the use of interoperable, composable data – to put end users in charge of their own data and to increase the reliability, integrity, and portability of shared data. Building on existing semantic web standards, Murmurations provides an alternative… Read More »Updated Introduction

Murmurations features a range of open source tools to enable decentralised data sharing for Content Producers & Content Aggregators. Content Producers, such as: Bloggers Organisations Projects Networks Shops etc …can use Murmurations to share their content by creating a Murmurations profile: If a Content Producer is using WordPress they can create a Murmurations Profile in just a few clicks by installing the Murmurations Node Plugin. If a Content Producer has… Read More »Using Murmurations

This video demonstrates how the Murmurations protocol and the Murmurations WordPress Aggregator Plugin can be used to build maps from decentralised data. The demo focuses on how data from profiles which are hosted at their primary URL supersedes data from profiles hosted at third party URLs. This feature of Murmurations is especially powerful for map builders who want to create maps which do not go out of date – and… Read More »Murmurations WordPress Aggregator mapping demo

[NB We published an updated version of this post in June 2024] The Murmurations protocol is designed to enable decentralised data sharing. The most obvious examples of how it can be used are maps and directories but these are only the beginning. In this blog post we explore some of the other concepts which could be built on Murmurations. Local maps and directories drawing data from multiple sources One of… Read More »What can you build on the Murmurations protocol?