Data Portability Map

Find help articles about moving your digital stuff

Do you need to move your online data to a new home? It can be hard to find out how to move data and what options and tradeoffs exist.

The Data Transfer Initiative is interested in improving how you can move your own data, and offers a library of articles about portability solutions. The library is currently sparsely populated so not all possible options are listed yet.

Select kind of data to see what articles we have:

Blog

Web pages with content and authorship, and often comments and categories

Newsletter

If you host a personal newsletter with email subscribers and need to move it, that can be challenging

Viewing History

Watching short or long videos online can provide a record of your views and activity.

Book History

Reading or borrowing or buying history for books

Contacts

Address book data, containing contact information such as names, phone numbers and addresses

Photos

Static photo files, may contain metadata and be organized in albums

Playlists

A list of songs, in order, to play in a music app or music streaming service

Text Social Media

Text-centric posts, short or long, posted to a general timeline or a personal stream

Videos

Video content, e.g. a channel, may contain metadata and comments

Notes

Personal notes, organized in folders or with tags, possibly multi-media

Tasks

Your personal todo lists and content embedded in tasks, along with deadlines, project names, and other data

Newsletter

A personal newsletter with a back catalog of content (see also Blog)

Viewing History

A history of personal viewing of short or long videos online typically from a media/streaming site

Likes or Favorites

List of things you've liked, favorited, or interacted with on a platform (e.g. social media)

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Information about use cases helps us understand and advocate for the portability features and interoperability features that would be most helpful.