THE Web is pretty good at letting people surf through text, pictures, movies
and sounds. But if you’re interested in manipulating good, hard data, it can be
a bit of a let-down. Now new standards promise to allow people to go “data
mining”, searching and comparing data from several sources.
“We want to make it simple to publish data so other people can do meaningful
things with it,” says Robert Grossman, director of the Laboratory for Advanced
Computing at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Grossman led a group that
last week released the first version of the Dataspace Transfer…
