Re: comment: topicmapmail Digest, Vol 74, Issue 1

Neal,

On 04/09/2012 11:35 AM, Neal McNamara (nealmc) wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
>    I enjoyed your post . . . huddled masses indeed.
>
Thanks!

>    It brought to mind the quandary that faced me more than 30 years ago.
> The DoD was pushing forward a program they called IWSDB for Integrated
> Weapons System Database. As a contractor for the Navy, I was glad that
> they were finally going to reconcile the disparate data in each of the
> services. Highest on my mind was semantic interoperability.
>
>    So I began contacting officials to ask how they were going to
> reconcile terminology. And of course I found this little detail had been
> overlooked. They were going to have an integrated database, but they had
> no idea how to wrangle the data definitions into a single structure.
> Apparently applying computer power to the issue would be enough.
>
>    Today, despite the potential of the internet, they simply have
> automated the Babel.
>
I ran across some intelligence "integration" software today that claims 
to integrate various sources but:

1) On what basis integration occurs is never specified, and

2) How different groups might (or might not) share that integration was 
also not specified.

Not that everyone would ever agree but I would think re-use at least 
within an agency would be a value-add.

Any thoughts on a small data patch suitable for intelligence integration 
demonstration? Possibly for non-US intelligence types?

I say non-U.S. because I ran across a proposal recently that wants to 
capture 5 years worth of data when the agency in question has a track 
record of not using 90 day old data well. Building a bigger haystack is 
unlikely to produce better search results.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick



> Warm regards,
>
> Neal
>
>
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