From ON Magazine, Number 4, 2009
From the Web of Documents to the Web of Data:
Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of his Invention
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25JanAbout information, Cloud Computing, Information Management, Information Overload, Libraries, ON Magazine, Web@20 No Comments
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18Dec
In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee circulated a proposal to a few colleagues at CERN, stating that it “discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distributed hypertext system.”
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03Dec
“Over the past half century, we have been exposed to a great deal of talk about the information age, information revolution, information society, information technology, and so on, but [the history of database management systems] shows that each kind of information technology embeds its own definition of information. We do not deal with information in any pure, abstract form. We deal with particular technologies, able to inform us in particular ways. Like all technologies, they make some things easy and other things hard.”
Thomas Haigh, “How Data Got its Base: Information Storage Software in the 1950s and 1960s,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, October-December 2009.
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12Nov
“Sniffing a fire hydrant or a tree along a route popular with other dogs… becomes a means of keeping abreast of current events. That tree serves as a large canine tabloid containing the latest news items in the dog world. It may not contain installments of classic canine literature, but it certainly has a gossip column and the personals section of the classified ads.”
– Stanley Coren, How Dogs Think, 2004
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