Abstract:
Synchrona research project is aimed at synchronizing data between multiple different
Internet sites and services. It tries to address some of
the issues related to data synchronization between
varieties of social Internet services. In this paper we
present an open source implementation of an
extensible data synchronization platform for this
purpose. In this paper Synchrona service is
presented with some of the major applications built
within for the service. Here we have described
synchronization services for the following sites;
Blogger, Facebook, Moodle and Twitter. However
the service is made extensible via an API so that new
synchronization engines can be included for other
Internet sites and services. This project is user
centric and will provide the average Internet user
with the freedom to choose the manner in which
they want their data synchronized by stating their
preferences in a web browser plug-in. The browser
plug-in will act as the user front end and pass user
updates to the web service for synchronization. The
system also includes real-time data synchronization
between the users’ friends in the form of
notifications. Synchrona, in its implementation will
focus mainly on the aspect of fuzzy data
synchronization to ensure that user data is
synchronized seamlessly between multiple sites
without loss of meaning.
