Re: The DATA Act, Department of the Treasury, and Machine Learning Technologies

e-Governance Community Group,


Thank you.  With regard to whether engineering and technology can reduce the classification complexity of science and math, I would, instead, advocate increasing the complexity, the granularity; for instance, utilizing dotted notations, strings from trees or directed acyclic graphs, or URI related by such structure.

 

The categorization and classification of scientific documents, articles, is an important topic.  While numerous metadata models are expert-driven, for instance mathematical metadata, the mathematics subject classification (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_Subject_Classification), the metadata models, models in use at numerous organizations, including, but not limited to, the vocabulary of semantic keywords-based metadata, at organizations including science laboratories, universities, government organizations and funding organizations can facilitate the indexing, search and retrieval of documents, by the Department of the Treasury and during scientific research.

 

If the DATA Act passes, the Department of the Treasury could become a new funding source and coordinator of existing and new science and technology teams interested in document metadata and other data science topics.  We can list scholarly, scientific and other metadata models of use in scholarly and scientific communication and consider whether the Department of the Treasury could consolidate, coordinate and better fund research in existing and new area.


 


On scientific topics, I have thought about ontology and the scientific method, emergent structure, machine learning and the scientific method.  Education-related topics include the history of and philosophy of science.  Authors include Thomas Kuhn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn), Karl Popper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper) and Stephen Toulmin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Toulmin).

 

The DATA Act is available online (http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/2061/ and http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/994/).  We can discuss whether the DATA Act includes or should include the Department of the Treasury funding research and development into various metadata models, models of programs, expenditures, expenses, articles, documents, reports and other data, e.g. NAICS.

 

 


Kind regards,


Adam Sobieski