Higgins is an open-source project dedicated to giving individuals more control over their personal identity, profile and social network data.
In 2004 the effort became part of SocialPhysics.org, a collaboration between Paul and Mary Ruddy, of Azigo Archived 2002-07-27 at the Wayback Machine, (formerly Parity Communications, Inc.), and Meristic, and John Clippinger, at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
IBM and Novell's participation in the project was announced in early 2006.
[2][3] Higgins has received technology contributions from IBM, Novell, Oracle, CA, Serena, Google, eperi GmbH as well as from several other firms and individuals.
[4] As of 2019 Eclipse Higgins is archived, meaning that it is an inactive project.