ed parsons: our annotated world
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Our annotated world..The role of PSI in the age of ambient information
Ed Parsons, Geospatial TechnologistGoogle, London
Image Credit Flickr user Stefan
ambient information
3000BC - 2003 AD = 5 exabytes
Today the web grows by5 exabytes every 2 days !
Consumers Producers
camera
microphone
compassaccelerometer
gyroscope
proximity
GPS receiverlight
Is that a sensor in your pocket ?
35bnSource : Vint Cerf” Cerf's Up: Social, Economic and Regulatory Issues:Internet in the Next Five to Ten Years." 2000 WorldCom, Inc.
Devices connected to the Internet
Here comes everything..
172.16.20.145IPv4 2!" 4.3 billion unique addresses
2620:0000:1042:0012:0223:6c!:fe99:8003IPv6 2#"$ unique addresses
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456
Physical World Virtual World
“In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satis"ed, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it.
The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters.
In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.”
“On Exactitude in Science.. In that Empire, the Art of Cartography”Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions, Translated by Andrew Hurley, 1999
The challenge is seeing less..
Public Sector Information
The case for wider access to PSI
• Transparency
• Engagement
• Accountability
• E%ciency
• Improved service delivery
Access to information changes behavior
Public Sector Information
Canonical data
Open access to Government dataPSI as a platform
• Data published in a machine readable and hence reusable format
• Released under an open license, allowing free and commercial reuse..
Accessibility Quality>
