Kevin Kelly
Tim Berners Lee and Kevin Kelly are right about the importance of linking data; I hope my layman's approach how to achieve it might be helpful.
Labels often provide information ("tomatoes") and data (80 grams), so referring just to labels reduces perceived scientific or IT terms to the mundane. If a label written as property/value pairs (tomatoes: 80grams; onions: 10grams; ...) is attached to a name (soup), then as more and more such names and labels are identified, linking opportunities proliferate.
Names and their labels are made accessible from the web for human or machine analysis and/or action.
Chris,
ReplyDeleteyou're right about what we call "tagged data". Anytime you put a number, text or 'data', you have to tag it. In our company we could stuff data into an relational dB. But, for simplicity sake I've found it helpful to simply stuff the tag=data pairs into comma or space delimited text files, or even binary files, etc. In my case the data is simple numbers assoicated with test results in a manufacturing environment. Your layman's statment is very good.
Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI would be interested to know what you then use to analyse the test results.
This would help me complete this layman's approach.