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Data Browser
A browser that makes hyperlinks between data records meaningful to make. (Internet of Data) | |
The idea that any record in any database could have a "url"
to any other record in any other database ("Internet of
Data") may be useful in many situations, including the
creation of semantic web.
Given a good popular data browser, many would probably
care to open their databases for public
access with default
database ports, like 5432, or 27017, for data consumption,
and so, we could start using hyperlinks like:
postgresql :// www.example.com:5432/example/topics/123
The database programming languages like (PL/SQL, PSL,
etc.)
would come back to relevance, allowing the flexibility to
define the added business logic and functionality, which
these days usually is provided by building an API on top of
databases.
Today, while most of the web pages on ports 80/443
are open to public, traditionally, most records in databases
are behind an authentication, and thus, people are not
inclined to make such links (they are inclined to scrape the
web rather than properly use databases).
Given an existence and wide knowledge of a good data
browser (with ease of use and powerful analytics
capabilities on local computers), it is reasonable to expect
that
people would care to make proper public access to them,
and create a web of data.
Memorandum
http://www.kurzweil...ic-computer-network
Some talk about where it would all go. [mylodon, Oct 23 2017]
[link]
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The only problem is getting people to standardize on something or to open databases to something. It's a very untrusted world out there. For instance PDF's are how most people exchange very important information, and those things are two steps from a pcx file, and you can't even palette cycle them. |
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If you want to go one better, you get CSV. |
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It's time to re-read "The Memorandum for members and affiliates of the intergalactic computer network." |
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The difference between this and say a SQL over Telnet is .... ? |
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[FlyingToaster] This would have to implement some
kind of generic query language, and ready-made
queries, and maybe visualization capabilities not seen
in command line. Communal databases like HB would
be way more interactive :) |
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I was under the impression SQL is a "generic query
language". |
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There is any number of tools today that will attempt to
create analytically useful data from queries. |
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SQL (at least the variants I'm familiar with), already
supports database.table syntax in queries, so that
queries can be made across databases, and there's no
particular reason why the database part of the name
cannot be a URL. |
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Modern SQL also returns data in XML and can be made to
return json |
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So the principal idea here is to open the databases to
querying and to have a DNS like super table of
databases? |
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Exactly! [theircompetitor] |
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How would block-chaining prevent the inclusion of fakes I
wonder? |
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[zen_tom], you correctly noticed it, Tim Berners-Lee
highlighted its importance many years ago. So, why,
when so many are talking about IoT, few are aware of a
bigger idea of Linked Data? Maybe it's not properly
marketed, maybe we should call it not "Linked Data",
but "IoD"? But,.. just maybe, the problem
is that we don't have that Data Browser? |
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