Machine readable wishes + Quantified Self = Digital legacy?

The whole video (17.5 mins) is available on Peertube and now legacy media (Youtube). Small enough for a TED talk even… I was reading through the Quantified Self newsletter and had a shock when I saw my talk about machine readable wishes from #EMFCamp featured. I shared it on Linkedin quickly but not on my blog. Ian Forrester, founder of QS-Manchester back in the day, gave a fascinating talk a couple of weeks ago at EMF Camp on machine-readable wishes: applying the logic of automation rules to the question of what should happen to your personal data after you die. Ian’s talk made me think about my personal archives in a different way. He makes the case that a personal archive should contain executable instructions and provides an open-source framework to help you do this without entangling yourself even further in rent-seeking cloud services. I do think Gary, has the right idea. Machine readable wishes could be used to connect items and (for example) open source data sets for the…