Joe is one of my big heros and I just thought I would mention him again since CNN published one of his common sense articles today suggesting solutions for the US bank bailout:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/26/stiglitz.finance.crisis/index.html
When studying one of our Masters of Information classes I looked into the financial side of information management and discovered Joseph E. Stiglitz, the Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economic Sciences in 2001, for his work on the economics of information. Joe is a professor at Columbia University.
Dr. Stiglitz wrote "Making Globalization Work" which I very much admire.
Here's a search response on his books:
http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Joseph+E+Stiglitz&source=an&sa=X&oi=book_group&resnum=4&ct=title&cad=author-navigational
Here is a link to some of his writings about the current economic situation.
http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/Crisis.cfm
His autobiography:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2001/stiglitz-autobio.html
Here are links to two of the articles I wrote based on my reading research:
"In order to be considered a great global leader China should maintain peace and respect for corporate property rights. They need to immediately focus on their serious environmental pollution problems to survive. Politically China needs to resolve the long-standing repression of the Tibetan people; it is too expensive in terms of public relations."
http://wonderlane.blogspot.com/2008/03/report-china-is-likely-winner-of.html
and a "How I researched and wrote the article" document -
http://wonderlane.blogspot.com/2008/03/china-is-likely-winner-of-information.html
Showing posts with label MSIM. Show all posts
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Introduction to Geeksville
We are nerds. Welcome to the peculiar world of the generalized yet detailed global technologist.
Here we chat with our cohorts - who are coding television-on-demand security in Lisbon, attending class via video working on the open ocean in a research vessel while preparing to win an international martial arts competition in Tokyo, contemplating how to re-engineer a 100+ year old trucking company supply chain and communications system, traveling to Nepal to photograph and document a 1000 year old secret ritual and publish it on the Internet and in academia, establishing new standards for antiquated backwards thinking medical staff because we care.
Where the words 'I want to get off the grid' are more shocking than anything about sex or drugs. Here we have different standards than most people, and when it comes to technology sometimes our expectations of ourselves and the tech - well they are very high.
Here you find us where the belief that technology can help make the world a better place is not just a dream, it is a shared goal.
It is not a gentle ride.
Here we chat with our cohorts - who are coding television-on-demand security in Lisbon, attending class via video working on the open ocean in a research vessel while preparing to win an international martial arts competition in Tokyo, contemplating how to re-engineer a 100+ year old trucking company supply chain and communications system, traveling to Nepal to photograph and document a 1000 year old secret ritual and publish it on the Internet and in academia, establishing new standards for antiquated backwards thinking medical staff because we care.
Where the words 'I want to get off the grid' are more shocking than anything about sex or drugs. Here we have different standards than most people, and when it comes to technology sometimes our expectations of ourselves and the tech - well they are very high.
Here you find us where the belief that technology can help make the world a better place is not just a dream, it is a shared goal.
It is not a gentle ride.
Saturday, March 01, 2008
iSchool University of Washington
Technology moves fast, just like information does. One of my own old technical prejudices I didn't notice until I visited Berkeley's iSchool - I asked how they re-wired the fabulous old South Hall, built in 1873. "Re-wire? We didn't need to," they told me, "It's all wireless."
From the Chronicle of Higher Education is an interesting article on the value of graduating: http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=wWwv6kBkcTbYktwbjrJkskjtdhknjqvf
Hmmm that article doesn't appear any more - perhaps it isn't recommended to be so critical of higher education putting people in unending debt to a loan they can never get out of - kind of like the buyout of collapsed financial institutions in progress now in the US.
From the Chronicle of Higher Education is an interesting article on the value of graduating: http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=wWwv6kBkcTbYktwbjrJkskjtdhknjqvf
Hmmm that article doesn't appear any more - perhaps it isn't recommended to be so critical of higher education putting people in unending debt to a loan they can never get out of - kind of like the buyout of collapsed financial institutions in progress now in the US.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Desperate Sense of Humor
Twas the night before finals, and all through the college,
The students were praying for last minute knowledge.
Most were quite sleepy, but none touched their beds,
While visions of essays danced in their heads.
Out in the taverns, a few were still drinking,
And hoping that liquor would loosen their thinking.
In my own room I had been pacing,
And dreading exams I soon would be facing.
My roommate was speechless, his nose in his books,
And my comments to him drew unfriendly looks.
I drained all the coffee, and brewed a new pot,
No longer caring that my nerves were all shot.
I stared at the notes, but my thoughts were muddy,
My eyes went ablur, I just couldn't study.
"Some pizza might help," I said with a shiver,
But each place I called refused to deliver.
I'd nearly concluded that life was too cruel,
With futures depending on grades made in school.
When all of a sudden, our door opened wide,
And Patron Saint Put-It-Off ambled inside.
His spirit was careless, his manner was mellow,
All of a sudden, he started to bellow.
"On Cliff's notes, on Crib notes, On Last Year Exams.
On Wing-It and Sling-It and Last Minute Crams."
His message delivered, he vanished from sight,
But we heard him laughing outside in the night.
"Your teachers have pegged you, so just do your best,
Happy Finals to All, and to all a Good Test."
Twas The Night Before Finals
by Andrew Hund, 1993
The students were praying for last minute knowledge.
Most were quite sleepy, but none touched their beds,
While visions of essays danced in their heads.
Out in the taverns, a few were still drinking,
And hoping that liquor would loosen their thinking.
In my own room I had been pacing,
And dreading exams I soon would be facing.
My roommate was speechless, his nose in his books,
And my comments to him drew unfriendly looks.
I drained all the coffee, and brewed a new pot,
No longer caring that my nerves were all shot.
I stared at the notes, but my thoughts were muddy,
My eyes went ablur, I just couldn't study.
"Some pizza might help," I said with a shiver,
But each place I called refused to deliver.
I'd nearly concluded that life was too cruel,
With futures depending on grades made in school.
When all of a sudden, our door opened wide,
And Patron Saint Put-It-Off ambled inside.
His spirit was careless, his manner was mellow,
All of a sudden, he started to bellow.
"On Cliff's notes, on Crib notes, On Last Year Exams.
On Wing-It and Sling-It and Last Minute Crams."
His message delivered, he vanished from sight,
But we heard him laughing outside in the night.
"Your teachers have pegged you, so just do your best,
Happy Finals to All, and to all a Good Test."
Twas The Night Before Finals
by Andrew Hund, 1993
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
del.icio.us meta tag
Linda Lane to Mike Crandall
Met with a class member to see if I could get a leg up on your De.li.cious assignment to metatag the MSIM website. What I decided to do is:
1. Take a compilation of all of the MSIM pages - All 97 MSIM URLs:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dvcqpwq_17d4cqn6*
2. then run each of them through the Dublin Core metadata editor engine linked off the DC site, (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dcdot.pl)
3. Group the results of each header set into bundles,
4. then enter all of those into del.icio.us
that would be one rather obsessive one way to respond to your assignment, but it would work. In this way it would all be computer generated with the exception of my manual inputs into fields.
There is a manual way to do it, based on the intention of del.icio.us as a more human social tagging viewpoint but I like the first way because it is complete! Please let me know if this is completely off base.
Mike Crandall to Linda Lane
Well, that’s one way to do it, but it wouldn’t satisfy the assignment, because it’s going to take a human to understand how the subjects of the MSIM site can meet audience needs. There is no automatic way to do that, unfortunately, and it takes a great deal of thought and analysis to come up with a reasonable approach.
I’d recommend not wasting your time on the mechanical process and dedicate it instead to thinking about what people who use the site are interested in knowing, and how you might provide metadata that would meet that need. And I would recommend not even thinking about del.icio.us until you’ve finished designing your schema. That is merely a way for you to see it in action and determine if it will work. All the hard work has to be done up front, as with most things worth doing.
My point is that you need to do the intellectual work before you do the mechanical work. And in fact, del.icio.us is only a partially successful tool for displaying your intellectual work because it was not designed to provide the full richness that can be expressed in a fully fleshed out vocabulary system.
Linda Lane to Mike Crandall
Admittedly I have been social tagging in Flickr and on Blogger for a long while - but this seems wildly different to use a social tagging framework to perform organized tagging with others in mind.
Mais oui, I always tagged my own images and blogs with the idea that it was for other people, not for me.
How about if I do an experiment??? - do a little of both and see which one wins? I think the manual one will, but if I do both (and then never follow the links myself) in a year or so we will be able to see which ones other people actually use and that will determine the winner and champion
Mike Crandall to Linda Lane
Exactly the idea of this assignment, Linda. I wanted you to think about what the intersection of an organized tagging system and a freeform one would mean, and what it would look like over time. It’s somewhat of a social experiment as well—I don’t know if you’ve discovered it yet, but past cohorts have done a tremendous amount of tagging in del.icio.us, and I’m curious about how this grows over time as subsequent classes come along (also interested to see how many people actually discover and use previous tags).
*from a script created by Brian Dorsey
Met with a class member to see if I could get a leg up on your De.li.cious assignment to metatag the MSIM website. What I decided to do is:
1. Take a compilation of all of the MSIM pages - All 97 MSIM URLs:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dvcqpwq_17d4cqn6*
2. then run each of them through the Dublin Core metadata editor engine linked off the DC site, (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cgi-bin/dcdot.pl)
3. Group the results of each header set into bundles,
4. then enter all of those into del.icio.us
that would be one rather obsessive one way to respond to your assignment, but it would work. In this way it would all be computer generated with the exception of my manual inputs into fields.
There is a manual way to do it, based on the intention of del.icio.us as a more human social tagging viewpoint but I like the first way because it is complete! Please let me know if this is completely off base.
Mike Crandall to Linda Lane
Well, that’s one way to do it, but it wouldn’t satisfy the assignment, because it’s going to take a human to understand how the subjects of the MSIM site can meet audience needs. There is no automatic way to do that, unfortunately, and it takes a great deal of thought and analysis to come up with a reasonable approach.
I’d recommend not wasting your time on the mechanical process and dedicate it instead to thinking about what people who use the site are interested in knowing, and how you might provide metadata that would meet that need. And I would recommend not even thinking about del.icio.us until you’ve finished designing your schema. That is merely a way for you to see it in action and determine if it will work. All the hard work has to be done up front, as with most things worth doing.
My point is that you need to do the intellectual work before you do the mechanical work. And in fact, del.icio.us is only a partially successful tool for displaying your intellectual work because it was not designed to provide the full richness that can be expressed in a fully fleshed out vocabulary system.
Linda Lane to Mike Crandall
Admittedly I have been social tagging in Flickr and on Blogger for a long while - but this seems wildly different to use a social tagging framework to perform organized tagging with others in mind.
Mais oui, I always tagged my own images and blogs with the idea that it was for other people, not for me.
How about if I do an experiment??? - do a little of both and see which one wins? I think the manual one will, but if I do both (and then never follow the links myself) in a year or so we will be able to see which ones other people actually use and that will determine the winner and champion
Mike Crandall to Linda Lane
Exactly the idea of this assignment, Linda. I wanted you to think about what the intersection of an organized tagging system and a freeform one would mean, and what it would look like over time. It’s somewhat of a social experiment as well—I don’t know if you’ve discovered it yet, but past cohorts have done a tremendous amount of tagging in del.icio.us, and I’m curious about how this grows over time as subsequent classes come along (also interested to see how many people actually discover and use previous tags).
*from a script created by Brian Dorsey
Friday, March 02, 2007
Utmost attention will be paid to secure personal privacy
Densely typed in, nearly 2,000 words over four pages, the policy statement of The University of Washington’s Electronic Information Privacy Policy on Personally Identifiable Information lays out in clear terms what PII is at the University and who can provide exceptions to the rules. The document requires familiarity with technical information and communication systems and at least some knowledge of the University -- how it is structured and administered.
The document regulates the ideas behind the University’s goals in relationship to Personally Identifiable Information (PII), to be “in full compliance with all related federal and state statutes and regulations, and demonstrate a rigorous commitment to core values of maximizing trust, integrity, and respect for privacy.” It is a statement of clear commitment which using the methods outlined in this case study can be accomplished through a collaborative, enterprise wide community commitment to the ideal, so that the insurance costs do not escalate beyond the UW’s ability to pay, and to maintain a sense of respect, responsibility, and dedication to humanity.
There can be no doubt that the tone of this document is intended to protect people, enumerating who “they” are in some detail. The document outlines the exceptions for control of information, by detailing which executives may take responsibility for PII.
In contrast to the stated commitment and ideal, the reality is more difficult to practice because “60% to 80% of consumers' PCs are infected with spyware”, as Kirk Bailey, UW’s Chief Information Security Officer told MSIM2008 interviewers, “But much, if not all of any individual’s Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is already available through other online sources. In fact if an organization looses control of someone’s PII, it would be very difficult to prove who the source really was.”
The truth is most if not all PII is already publicly available. This was demonstrated by Kirk Bailey’s study reported in the New York Times and Seattle Post Intelligencer, in which his valid birth certificate was obtained with little difficulty, and leveraged to gain control of bank accounts. By cross referencing a number of sources, such as databases, and search behaviors other information may be inferred.
There are several motivating factors underlying the reasons to protect Personally Identifiable Information, but the primaries are reputation and risk management. Reputation and cost are inextricably linked, because it is the law to remediate each case as applied to individual people.
Organizations and individuals have been successfully sued for millions of dollars in privacy claims. Common practice is to settle out of court in class action and group lawsuits, to avoid further degradation to the organization, reputation, tarnishing of their brand, and disturbing influences on the business in terms of compliance and audits. The expense really never ends; the costs are ongoing in the form of insurance.
The definition and legal application of privacy standards such as HIPAA are being tested in practice, due to recent enactment. Company executives have lost their jobs and organizations their reputations because they could not show they complied with best practices in relationship to securing PII data on systems, or worse yet, intentionally misused their customers PII by selling it to a third party without permission.
Loosing control of PII is expensive to remediate. By statute in Washington State, when a persons PII has been compromised they must be informed. At the University of Washington it is estimated last year it cost $187.00 per personal contact. The University’s reputation, as well as its brand is at stake, due to the lost of PII. And it is no fun for the people who have to make those calls. In order to assume responsibility and restore some faith that the organization’s intentions are good the senior staff speak with truly irate individuals.
At the current time security breaches and PII loss appears inevitable; as the University’s CISO Kirk Bailey takes a four fold method to reduce risk, and obtains insurance against such losses. Enterprise-wide, voluntary, even eager, compliance with regulations and statues is a best practice in terms of lost prevention. This is a major factor in the methods he applies.
Regarding how companies abuse privacy Kirk Bailey detailed in his Hackers PBS interview, he said unscrupulous companies do this with “The placement of "cookies" or the requesting of information when you log onto the site. Forms that are filled out and then that information is rolled up into databases, or tracking your activities on their Web sites to create a profile of what your interests might be, then using those conjectures and that real data and wrapping it within a profile and selling it that information. We know those things take place. I resent those kinds of things. I find that unacceptable. It's not necessary. . . .”
-Kirk Bailey, PBS interview, 2001 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/interviews/bailey.html
Shukovsky, P. “’Good Guys’ show just how easy it is to steal ID” Seattle Post Intelligencer. March 5, 2005 (retrieved from the web March 19, 2005). http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/214663_googlehack05.html
The document regulates the ideas behind the University’s goals in relationship to Personally Identifiable Information (PII), to be “in full compliance with all related federal and state statutes and regulations, and demonstrate a rigorous commitment to core values of maximizing trust, integrity, and respect for privacy.” It is a statement of clear commitment which using the methods outlined in this case study can be accomplished through a collaborative, enterprise wide community commitment to the ideal, so that the insurance costs do not escalate beyond the UW’s ability to pay, and to maintain a sense of respect, responsibility, and dedication to humanity.
There can be no doubt that the tone of this document is intended to protect people, enumerating who “they” are in some detail. The document outlines the exceptions for control of information, by detailing which executives may take responsibility for PII.
In contrast to the stated commitment and ideal, the reality is more difficult to practice because “60% to 80% of consumers' PCs are infected with spyware”, as Kirk Bailey, UW’s Chief Information Security Officer told MSIM2008 interviewers, “But much, if not all of any individual’s Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is already available through other online sources. In fact if an organization looses control of someone’s PII, it would be very difficult to prove who the source really was.”
The truth is most if not all PII is already publicly available. This was demonstrated by Kirk Bailey’s study reported in the New York Times and Seattle Post Intelligencer, in which his valid birth certificate was obtained with little difficulty, and leveraged to gain control of bank accounts. By cross referencing a number of sources, such as databases, and search behaviors other information may be inferred.
There are several motivating factors underlying the reasons to protect Personally Identifiable Information, but the primaries are reputation and risk management. Reputation and cost are inextricably linked, because it is the law to remediate each case as applied to individual people.
Organizations and individuals have been successfully sued for millions of dollars in privacy claims. Common practice is to settle out of court in class action and group lawsuits, to avoid further degradation to the organization, reputation, tarnishing of their brand, and disturbing influences on the business in terms of compliance and audits. The expense really never ends; the costs are ongoing in the form of insurance.
The definition and legal application of privacy standards such as HIPAA are being tested in practice, due to recent enactment. Company executives have lost their jobs and organizations their reputations because they could not show they complied with best practices in relationship to securing PII data on systems, or worse yet, intentionally misused their customers PII by selling it to a third party without permission.
Loosing control of PII is expensive to remediate. By statute in Washington State, when a persons PII has been compromised they must be informed. At the University of Washington it is estimated last year it cost $187.00 per personal contact. The University’s reputation, as well as its brand is at stake, due to the lost of PII. And it is no fun for the people who have to make those calls. In order to assume responsibility and restore some faith that the organization’s intentions are good the senior staff speak with truly irate individuals.
At the current time security breaches and PII loss appears inevitable; as the University’s CISO Kirk Bailey takes a four fold method to reduce risk, and obtains insurance against such losses. Enterprise-wide, voluntary, even eager, compliance with regulations and statues is a best practice in terms of lost prevention. This is a major factor in the methods he applies.
Regarding how companies abuse privacy Kirk Bailey detailed in his Hackers PBS interview, he said unscrupulous companies do this with “The placement of "cookies" or the requesting of information when you log onto the site. Forms that are filled out and then that information is rolled up into databases, or tracking your activities on their Web sites to create a profile of what your interests might be, then using those conjectures and that real data and wrapping it within a profile and selling it that information. We know those things take place. I resent those kinds of things. I find that unacceptable. It's not necessary. . . .”
-Kirk Bailey, PBS interview, 2001 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/interviews/bailey.html
Shukovsky, P. “’Good Guys’ show just how easy it is to steal ID” Seattle Post Intelligencer. March 5, 2005 (retrieved from the web March 19, 2005). http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/214663_googlehack05.html
Thursday, March 01, 2007
What is Privacy? It's Relative to Your Intention and Motivating Factors
Biological | Privacy
Safety and Security
One point of view may be called the biological view of privacy, it concerns safety, and security, and people generally consider privacy from this personal point of view. Even animals recognize the need for biological privacy. This may be tied to reproduction, as well as physical security.
Earning A Living
A view of medical data may also fit into this category because such information may be personally detrimental to individuals. For example if it is known that a person has a disease they may find it difficult to find or keep a job based on prejudices.
Motivational and Relational | Privacy
Unwanted Sales Attempts
Another is motivation and relational, so for example when companies document privacy statements, they are communicating to customers and staff their policies which protect from unwanted sales attempts, through such things as opt-in or out ‘contact me’ selections when providing their PII. Also from the business point of view, selling collections of PII through as databases then used for sales attempts is another kind of opt-in or out of choice businesses give to customers, and require their employees to respect their customers choices.
Stealing & Identity Theft | Privacy
In this view of PII, information such as credit card numbers are the target that thieves are most interested in. Why this is most important is because it can be reasoned that far more money is made in online transactions through illegitimate means, through evil doers conning the unwary, then by legal ecommerce according to Kirk Bailey.
Wanton Destruction | Information Private or Public
The idea here is to access or destroy information for egoistic reasons, such as fun, the thrill of overcoming security and so forth. Whether or not it is PII may unimportant to these culprits but exposing PII always is to those individuals who suffer the lost of their PII.
______
Although the United States constitution does not call out a “Right to Privacy” it can be inferred in the broadest sense by the people’s Declaration of Independence and their
“unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”
Furthermore the US Constitution establishes the reasons the government will serve the people to
“establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity”
Among these “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”, “insure domestic tranquility, provide common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty” are drawn upon to provide the basis for laws regarding privacy in the United States.
Safety and Security
One point of view may be called the biological view of privacy, it concerns safety, and security, and people generally consider privacy from this personal point of view. Even animals recognize the need for biological privacy. This may be tied to reproduction, as well as physical security.
Earning A Living
A view of medical data may also fit into this category because such information may be personally detrimental to individuals. For example if it is known that a person has a disease they may find it difficult to find or keep a job based on prejudices.
Motivational and Relational | Privacy
Unwanted Sales Attempts
Another is motivation and relational, so for example when companies document privacy statements, they are communicating to customers and staff their policies which protect from unwanted sales attempts, through such things as opt-in or out ‘contact me’ selections when providing their PII. Also from the business point of view, selling collections of PII through as databases then used for sales attempts is another kind of opt-in or out of choice businesses give to customers, and require their employees to respect their customers choices.
Stealing & Identity Theft | Privacy
In this view of PII, information such as credit card numbers are the target that thieves are most interested in. Why this is most important is because it can be reasoned that far more money is made in online transactions through illegitimate means, through evil doers conning the unwary, then by legal ecommerce according to Kirk Bailey.
Wanton Destruction | Information Private or Public
The idea here is to access or destroy information for egoistic reasons, such as fun, the thrill of overcoming security and so forth. Whether or not it is PII may unimportant to these culprits but exposing PII always is to those individuals who suffer the lost of their PII.
______
Although the United States constitution does not call out a “Right to Privacy” it can be inferred in the broadest sense by the people’s Declaration of Independence and their
“unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”
Furthermore the US Constitution establishes the reasons the government will serve the people to
“establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity”
Among these “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”, “insure domestic tranquility, provide common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty” are drawn upon to provide the basis for laws regarding privacy in the United States.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Why should we believe that using metadata will help J. Random User get in touch with her Buddha nature?
"Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia" is a short read on why metadata may not work in the open Internet: http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm
For a foretaste, check out the brief chapter headings:
* 0. ToC
o 0.1 Version History
* 1. Introduction
* 2. The problems
o 2.1 People lie
o 2.2 People are lazy
o 2.3 People are stupid
o 2.4 Mission: Impossible -- know thyself
o 2.5 Schemas aren't neutral
o 2.6 Metrics influence results
o 2.7 There's more than one way to describe something
* 3. Reliable metadata
There is nothing like the open Internet to sound out ideas. My own opinion goes more towards that metadata is a tool because information is locked away from powerful search engines which necessitates organizing it with tools such as metadata, and analysis from data experts. But this model may not really help in terms of the absolutely creative nature of human endeavor. Methinks it comes more from the realm of library science and pedagogy where finding something in a physical realm and instruction is the goal, which has not caught up to the power to SEARCH, and view others' metadata such as relationships (tagging, authority - author, etc).
Still in a nation focused on UFOs and celebrities, maybe this is what is required to indulge the great unwashed jungle, and security protects the scientific and verifiable.
I would feel much better if I knew that all drug and health-related companies shared their information on research and discoveries for example.
Maybe someday instead of this Age of the Information Cold War, we will have strategies for open information presentation and a way to nix the harassment from the identity thieves.
My personal model included metrics to influence the model on purpose - but that is "mixing metadata with data" - strictly the wrong direction according to current science.
Combining the link stats (by data mining) should provide more information. It's how Page Rank score/ hit rate combine with IP address and other long term use tracking - thus relevance is displayed that makes a difference. People are lazy and many really don't get tech - so I am thinking of a way to assemble the page to include the Page Rank score/ hit rate, to help in usability.
What I want to my frequently used websites (such as the MSIM iSchool) is for it to present ALL the data specific to me. In other words I pretty much use the same exact pages over and over again - I don't want to have to search or click or anything - I just want what I use to be presented first and foremost. The other data that the 'outfit' (the UW in this case, or a business or religious or other org) wants to present to me or makes available is also interesting but less so.
Including metrics with the metadata allows information scientists to tweak their presentation model by showing it's relevance - in effect putting in metrics to view it's context to the greater whole. But not as metadata - as other information mapped to such things as sniffing my IP address.
What I mean by Medieval Information Age is that we have lots and lots of closed information and closed data systems - I hope that these will open up but I know I will not see this happen in my life time or even in the next lifetime, Greenstone not withstanding.
Meta data is like the "thin client" of the Information World - it allows lots and lots of information to be relayed very quickly, in categories.
Will we look back on this as the Medieval Information Age? I view information as a contextual circle - I know nothing.
For a foretaste, check out the brief chapter headings:
* 0. ToC
o 0.1 Version History
* 1. Introduction
* 2. The problems
o 2.1 People lie
o 2.2 People are lazy
o 2.3 People are stupid
o 2.4 Mission: Impossible -- know thyself
o 2.5 Schemas aren't neutral
o 2.6 Metrics influence results
o 2.7 There's more than one way to describe something
* 3. Reliable metadata
There is nothing like the open Internet to sound out ideas. My own opinion goes more towards that metadata is a tool because information is locked away from powerful search engines which necessitates organizing it with tools such as metadata, and analysis from data experts. But this model may not really help in terms of the absolutely creative nature of human endeavor. Methinks it comes more from the realm of library science and pedagogy where finding something in a physical realm and instruction is the goal, which has not caught up to the power to SEARCH, and view others' metadata such as relationships (tagging, authority - author, etc).
Still in a nation focused on UFOs and celebrities, maybe this is what is required to indulge the great unwashed jungle, and security protects the scientific and verifiable.
I would feel much better if I knew that all drug and health-related companies shared their information on research and discoveries for example.
Maybe someday instead of this Age of the Information Cold War, we will have strategies for open information presentation and a way to nix the harassment from the identity thieves.
My personal model included metrics to influence the model on purpose - but that is "mixing metadata with data" - strictly the wrong direction according to current science.
Combining the link stats (by data mining) should provide more information. It's how Page Rank score/ hit rate combine with IP address and other long term use tracking - thus relevance is displayed that makes a difference. People are lazy and many really don't get tech - so I am thinking of a way to assemble the page to include the Page Rank score/ hit rate, to help in usability.
What I want to my frequently used websites (such as the MSIM iSchool) is for it to present ALL the data specific to me. In other words I pretty much use the same exact pages over and over again - I don't want to have to search or click or anything - I just want what I use to be presented first and foremost. The other data that the 'outfit' (the UW in this case, or a business or religious or other org) wants to present to me or makes available is also interesting but less so.
Including metrics with the metadata allows information scientists to tweak their presentation model by showing it's relevance - in effect putting in metrics to view it's context to the greater whole. But not as metadata - as other information mapped to such things as sniffing my IP address.
What I mean by Medieval Information Age is that we have lots and lots of closed information and closed data systems - I hope that these will open up but I know I will not see this happen in my life time or even in the next lifetime, Greenstone not withstanding.
Meta data is like the "thin client" of the Information World - it allows lots and lots of information to be relayed very quickly, in categories.
Will we look back on this as the Medieval Information Age? I view information as a contextual circle - I know nothing.
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