Commercializing Dataveillence
Posted by samc on August 11th, 2007
“To HGW XX/7, with gratitude”. — The Lives of Others (interview)
Nonspheres IV (photos) takes the built shape of a digitally generated lattice which fills the entire gallery, suggesting a continuous yet remote set of relationships and talking about how the network-logic flattens space while spatializing politics, explains We Make Money Not Art.
This sensation is further induced through works on two geopolitically charged offsite locations - the former NSA listening-post at Teufelsberg, Berlin and a performance in Kabul, Afghanistan. It runs in Berlin, through August 18th.
The Semantic Web requires data format standardization like XML and a Resource Description Framework. Microsoft is seeking ISO standardization for Office Open XML, but OpenDocument has already been approved by ISO.
Visual Complexity can make complex relationships clear. Surf3D allows customized discovery and harvesting of information on the web such as Dow Jones or E-Bay. Earthquake 3D is one (free) example of the power of data mining in real-time. Web Content Mining Software is also available in mobile devices, enabled by SQL and Java.
Soon ubiquitous internet cameras, array microphones, RF-ID, license-plate reading software, image recognition and language understanding will be layered on top of the Semantic Web (wikipedia). Tagging documents with computer processable meaning (semantics) will create a universal medium for information exchange.
Many business already have more on-line storage than the 29 Terabytes stored at The Library of Congress. “Change” may be more important than access to databases.
The National Security Agency may provide a better model for businesses. They monitor change. “Collections managers”, monitor traffic, then connect the dots by interrogating their data base.
That’s new information. Actionable information. The Semantic Web is an enabler of many things, good and bad. It’s like science fiction.
source : dailywireless.org
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