In developing EventWeb, in addition to considering the infrastructure and information needs for the current events, one must also consider how past and future events should be represented. Today I thought of presenting some ideas about past events. Let us…
Capturing Reality of Events
When an event is taking place and we are interested in capturing it, the best way to do is to use multiple sensors. As is common in a sports event, multiple cameras are used to capture these events and then…
Beyond Gutenberg
Gutenberg legacy has influenced WWW more than anything else. Current WWW is a web of documents. The Web was initially designed to allow researchers to share their research papers and then it took of to include all kind of applications. …
Changing nature of data and search perspectives
Bob Wyman (cofounder and CTO of pubsub.com) has been arguing that one should consider searches in two clear categories: retroactive searches and proactive searches. Retroactive searches are the searches that we are the common theme in databases and search engines. …
Podcasting: How will we search?
Podcasting is now entering mainstream. See:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/technology/25podcast.html?th If people are producing audio files and posting them on the web for others to access them, there should be a mechanism to easily search them. As we saw new approaches to search with…