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** Embassy Cables
 
** Embassy Cables
 
* http://spacelog.org/
 
* http://spacelog.org/
** http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1958292 "I would love to get an in-depth technical explanation of the requests and procedures -- how all this stuff works and insights into the troubleshooting process."
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** http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1958292 "I would love to get an in-depth technical explanation of the requests and procedures -- how all this stuff works and insights into the troubleshooting process."
 
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Revision as of 23:37, 1 December 2010

Problem Statement

We're seeing an increase in the publication of vast corpuses of data logs, often in the form of message archives, usually in a structured message format. They're all quite overwhelming: how to make sense of such a vast amount of text? How to identify sections that are relevant?

  • Can we allow large number of interested parties (anyone really) to annotate these documents?
    • What kinds of annotations do we want to make? (Information structure)
    • How can we make that easy? (Tools)
  • ...

Exemplary Publications

Observations

  • What constitutes an "interesting" section of a document is a matter of perspective.
    • Thus, such annotations become more useful if they're linked to a context (e.g. "this cable relates to news story X")
  • Many parties will already build browsers for such publications, with varying ways of navigating such content.
    • We don't need to duplicate those efforts, but we should integrate with them.
  • ...

Requirements

  • Need a shared addressing scheme that works across document browsers
    • Based on permalinks
    • we can translate between different approaches
  • Need ways to link/group individual messages
  • Need ways to identify level of "interestingness" (e.g. voting, cf. Q&A sites)
  • Contribution should be possible anonymously
  • ...