Re: Data Sharing - a video

FYI

On 5/27/13 4:12 PM, M. Scott Marshall wrote:
> Data sharing is easier said than done, as demonstrated in the (funny
> but a little sad!!) video below. It's a true story - I'm sure. You
> will laugh and you will cry.
>
> Data represents a significant investment but you would never know it
> from the way that data is typically (mis)handled. Data is usually
> stored in such a way that the precise meaning of certain data is lost.
> A retrospective process of  'semantic elucidation' is often too
> expensive and sometimes impossible, and this is what leads to what I
> sometimes cynically call an endless supply of ‘disposable data’. I
> would argue that the 'added value' of a Semantic Web approach to data
> is the prevention of almost certain loss.
>
> “Semantically disambiguate early and often.” - M. Scott Marshall
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N2zK3sAtr-4
>
> [Orig. shared by +Andre Dekker . I see that I apparently missed it
> when +Trish Whetzel shared this gem.]
>
> My first post:
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/114642613065018821852/posts/P6AkPDa3tfo
>
> --
> M. Scott Marshall, PhD
> MAASTRO clinic, http://www.maastro.nl/en/1/
> http://eurecaproject.eu/
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/114642613065018821852/posts
> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/m-scott-marshall/5/464/a22
>
>
>

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