I have been pushing this idea in STEM for about 5 years under the heading (from Jim Downing) "Long-tail science". This emphasizes the heterogeneity and the large number of sets. In practice (at least in sciences which want to publish data) "big data" is already recognized and even often supported by funders. Long-tail data is a myriad of Cinderellas.
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Rufus Pollock <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > > I wanted to let folks know about this post which has just gone up: > > > http://blog.okfn.org/2013/04/22/forget-big-data-small-data-is-the-real-revolution/ > > <quote> > There is a lot of talk about “big data” at the moment. For example, > this is Big Data Week, which will see events about big data in dozens > of cities around the world. But the discussions around big data miss a > much bigger and more important picture: the real opportunity is not > big data, but small data. Not centralized “big iron”, but > decentralized data wrangling. Not“one ring to rule them all” but > “small pieces loosely joined”. > </quote> > > Very interested to hear people's thoughts - this will be first in a series. > > Rufus > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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