High Level System Diagram

This page provides a high-level overview of all stakeholders in a general personal data ecosystem. This includes third parties providing data and services, users in the ecosystem (shown as participants), and applications acting on behalf of users and services.

Subsequent sections explain each of the blocks called out in the above figure, including Registry and authorization, personal data stores and their associated question and answer system, as well as clients and data providers built on top of the ecosystem. APIs are described to facilitate communication between physical servers in a personal data ecosystem, as well as how data is organized in personal data stores, and the means by which one may define new applications or data connectors to run on personal data stores.