Yesterday I posted on spreading the gospel of topic maps. Then a note about Ken North’s Movement on the Big Data Front shows up in my inbox.
Coincidence? I don’t think so!
It isn’t difficult to imagine linked data with a useful notion of subject identity (as opposed to 303 overhead) and subjects with multiple aliases.
For topic mappers concerned with processing issues, that post led me to:
Sets, Data Models and Data Independence (Part 1)
Laying the Foundation (Part 2)
Information Density, Mathematical Identity, Set Stores and Big Data (Part 3)
Small data sets have subject identity issues. Big Data sets do too! Big Data needs Big Topic Maps!
I saw the Big Data in XML Daily Newslink. Wednesday, 14 April 2010 by Robin Cover. Definitely worth subscribing. newsletter-subscribe@xml.coverpages.org
An interesting example of right and wrong:
Establishing a network effect around linked data is the most important R&D goal for the near future.
Right: “Network effect around linked data…” through, say, “binding points” 😉 ?
Wrong: “… R&D goal…” No. Business goal.
Comment by sam hunting — April 16, 2010 @ 9:56 am