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* Semantic content - http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/17/db.semanticweb/ - more finely specific content that can be aggregated, queried and reused reliably across the internet - clearinghouse for reusable data? | * Semantic content - http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/17/db.semanticweb/ - more finely specific content that can be aggregated, queried and reused reliably across the internet - clearinghouse for reusable data? | ||
* Data sovereignty - issues around a government or institution (eg hospital) working with a foreign company (eg the US government by law gains access to data HP provides support for) | * Data sovereignty - issues around a government or institution (eg hospital) working with a foreign company (eg the US government by law gains access to data HP provides support for) | ||
* Standards - formal and ad-hoc - use of proprietary | * Standards - formal and ad-hoc - use of proprietary document formats by public institutions, that require recipients to buy (or steal, through piracy) particular, applications, especially when they are not suitable (eg document doesn't need to be edited, so use PDF, text or HTML) or free alternatives exist (OpenOffice), making data easily reusable | ||
* Distributed problem solving - use small amounts of support from many individuals (or computers) to solve larger problems - eg Gutenberg Project to type in important public domain books, LibraVox to create public domain accessible audio books. | * Distributed problem solving - use small amounts of support from many individuals (or computers) to solve larger problems - eg Gutenberg Project to type in important public domain books, LibraVox to create public domain accessible audio books. | ||