Milton, to what do you disagree? Geological data are less individual than movies.
Nevertheless, even with a 100% budget for validation it's not possible to use this data
to create a map which mirrors the measured reality. Not size in particular is the
problem but relations and measurements. As it is in a movie content data base.
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Milton Aupperle wrote:
> I have to agree with charles on this a lot.
>
> From my days (many moons ago) as a mining geologist and later as
> GIS (Geographical Information Services) developer, people have
> consistently overlooked the two main costs/problems associated
> with metadata/databases.
>
> a) Assigning the object/data attributes for classification that
> are relevant
> b) Verification that the assigned attributes are
> correct/rational AND that the were entered into the data base
> correctly.
>
> When Cities/States/Government Agencies were assigning their
> budgets for major GIS projects the general rule was:
>
> 10% for Hardware/Software
> 30% for data acquisition and classification
> 60% for validation the data was both classified correctly and
> entered correctly
>
> Without the validation that the metadata is correct, the whole
> database becomes basically untrustworthy and may even become
> actionable by end users.
>
> Milton Aupperle
>
> On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 05:51 PM, Charles Wiltgen wrote:
>
> Harry Pasternak wrote...
>
> I am assuming that to use Quicktime right now to do a video data
> base search -
> would require someone to manually go through (for example) all
> the 3000, 60
> minute Salsa videos first.
>
> To use any format/standard would (and always* will) require
> manual metadata
> authoring for all but the simplest metadata. Keep in mind that
> some of the
> most basic metadata can't be inferred by the content at all.
>
> Metadata standards are a Good Thing, but the lack of standards hasn't
> prevented anyone from doing searchable video databases of Salsa moves.
> After all, it's been possible to do this since you could hook a Mac Plus
> up to videodisc player. It's just that nobody** cares.
>
> -- Charles Wiltgen
>
> *Meaning "for the next 50 years, at least".
>
> **Meaning "not enough people to recoup the investment it would take to
> create such a thing".
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