That's typically the case in several fields in the humanities where the complexity is in the representation refinement of the source, not necessarily the quantity. Laurent
Le 22 avr. 2013 à 15:52, Peter Murray-Rust a écrit : > 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 > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss Laurent Romary INRIA & HUB-IDSL [email protected]
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