The Power of Babble.

The article discusses the emerging and increasing common metadata for interoperability of computer systems. Topics include efforts within the computing industry to establish standard forms of communication, the tendency for translation between two data representations to be lossy and not successfull...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 59; no. 11; pp. 40 - 44
Autor principal: HELLAND, PAT
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2016
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Sumario:The article discusses the emerging and increasing common metadata for interoperability of computer systems. Topics include efforts within the computing industry to establish standard forms of communication, the tendency for translation between two data representations to be lossy and not successfully move all of the information from one form to another, and the creation of the artificial language Esperanto in 1887 to achieve a common shared natural language for all people.