Big Data, Publishing, and an Opportunity?
May 16, 2010
People are looking for a way to connect to the massive quantities of data online, but these publishers may be missing the point. Semantic Web’s recent article, “Big Data Publishing: Common Threads in STM, Legal & Educational Publishing,” discusses the possible onslaught of publishing online data, even recommending it as an entrepreneurial option. Big data publishing is the idea that a publisher will compile the Web—from blog posts, tweets, news articles and other ephemera—into print form. The goal is that people will want to study the web as a whole and understand how all things are connected. The question is, why should the internet be published? There are tools like social search that help us make connections between many topics, individuals and opinions already. Do we really need researchers and academics to help us make these connections?
Patrick Roland
May 16, 2010
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