Difficult to Search for, Share, Aggregate
Data
- Babelization
- Same terms, inconsistent meanings
("semantics")
- Different terms, same meaning
- Different terms, related (not identical) meaning
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![Tower of Babel](bruegel-tower-of-babel-ruins-big.jpg) |
- Computers don't understand meaning
- Meaning conveyed by human language, graphics, layout
- OK for human understanding
- Difficult for machine understanding
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![Disgusted computer cartoon](bane.gif) |