[Esip-preserve] Oh Goody - Google's got a numeric data format!

[Bruce Barkstrom]

I'd hate to become a conspiracy theorist, but is it "just coincidence"
that a few days ago Chris Lynnes had noted a collection of articles
in Science that claimed that scientific research was creating wasted
data because of the large number of different formats?  Are "Large
corporate interests" quietly funding an attack on arcane knowledge?
Will Google's format become "the next big thing"?  Do we need a plenary
session on it at the next ESIP meeting?  Where can we sign up for
funding?  [[?] or [?]]

Bruce B.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Tom Moritz <tom.moritz at gmail.com> wrote:

> A few weeks ago I did what I thought was an interesting experiment --
> I just generated some arbitrary numbers (out to fourth / fifth decimal
> point
> and searched them on Google...
>
> Pondering those results is pretty interesting...
>
> Tom
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> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Bruce Barkstrom <brbarkstrom at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> This should be lots of fun:
>> http://www.slate.com/id/2285354/
>>
>> I doubt the millennium of peace, freedom
>> for all, and justice will arrive with Google's
>> attempt to provide a universal data format
>> for numerical data.  Note that the author
>> regards XML and RDF as unpleasant.
>>
>> Anyway, comments would be interesting.
>>
>> Bruce B.
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