Standards & Metadata - Part VII

This follows from Part VI & follows in Part VIII

Facebook/twitter diary excerpt from an information manager:

Vast majority of information is not held on computers but in people's heads
If Information is Communication, then what is Metadata?
Monday E&P IM mantra: METADATA. METADATA. METADATA
Data, data everywhere. Hidden. [...] High value. Low awareness
Would like to take a broom to the data management techniques used

Web 2.0 in action

The recent announcement of data.gov.uk under none other than Tim Berners-Lee is a great step towards freeing UK data to the public - I won't reiterate the arguments going back and forth between for-free (tax-paid) and for-fee (cost recovery) - and such availability has raised eyebrows even in the land of the free - namely, how useful is it to the end-user ranging from guv contractor, thru spatial business to end-users, perhaps in decreasing order of patience &/or savvy?

Standards & Metadata, Part VIII

Update: Part IX is on my Medium Professional Channel here

My previous post on this topic stated how careful documentation and appropriate metadata high-grades any information that is shared online by giving origin, context and other information. It helps build bridges and I quipped a well-known tear down this wall that also closed my second last post on free data and apps.

Standards & Metadata - Part VI

Update: follow-on Part VII

A fable by Paolo Coelho inspired this post, a follow-on to Part V. Here is an excerpt from his e-book Stories for Parents, Children and Grandchildren - Volume 1.

Standards & Metadata - Part V

A quick follow-on to my series of same name posted here - I had a long email trail with a potential partner about serving up petrodata on the web, and here are a few lessons learned:

Andrew's AI crash-course (long)

wombo.ai early "A(I)rt" (original here)

 

Note: banner menu of blog's web version here shows full web presence

Ongoing: Andre ZolnAI Private Blog listed below or directly here

Experiment: look also for AI-assisted story-telling tagged below

Last update: by the numbers at bottom, with a dash of humor

And another one: last Kuwaiti Blog post with new experiment here

Closed: 'AIding' Tool, above videos & at bottom

Updated last Medium Pro. post just above Medium Personal

Added: AI generated GIS maps, under Flickr

Added fact-checking tip & shortcut under: AI's little helpers, halfway down

New channels: Kuwaiti blog, YouTube Shorts and Other

New how-tos: building AI agents + disaster response

New human-centeredness: with a little help from AI

New tools: Copilot help & Perplexity summaries

Update 4: a three-part manifesto closes this review

Update 3: added a note on "AI's little helpers"

Update 2: a French look into the future of AI

Update 1: ongoing collection of AI mods on Flickr 

Have I mentioned that AI will need skilled writers more than skilled coders? Forbes wrote here about a US efforts in that regard. [ 6 mo. update: Fortune reiterated that here. ] The one thing AI won't replace,  acc. to the starred "AI-ding Tool" example below is curiosity:  it mirrors Steve Jobs' "stay hungry, stay foolish" at Stanford 2005 Commencement Address here.

A brief history of mine

Update 2: see my journey on the web here.

Update 1: a duo of posts on my Medium professional channel here relates my early computing.

As I go through a 'hard reset' in my life and plan to exit social media, this may be a good time to pause and reflect on my IT journey.

Global Sailings (1662 - 1856, English, Spanish, Dutch, French) revisited

[Update: climate data (wind speed & direction) have now been added in short & long posts]

I originally extracted CLIWOC (CLImatological database for the World's OCeans) ship captains' logs ships locations over a decade ago, to demonstrate the processing of 250K+ points in ArcGIS desktop using then new File Geodatabase. Five years later I posted this on my old website with instructions how to use it in  old ArcGIS Explorer and KML, and then I put a layer package on arcgis.com - both related historic details like de laPerouse's demise below, the importance of data standards and metadata, and the interst it generated elsewhere - more recently I posted a time-based variation of same, where using a time slider helps clarifiy complex data on desktop GIS.