This semester I am doing a directed research CNTV 590 project with Scott Fisher as my advisor. I will try to update my progress here as often as possible so that those that are interested may follow along and contribute comments. Please feel free to write me about any issues that you find compelling as I believe that an open dialogue is the most important aspect of all academic programs.
There are really two initial goals that I have in my reasearch right now: (1) the first is to design an infrastructure for a database that dynamically organizes tagged (think RFID or GPS) objects (mobile and static) and their metadata into "communities" so that one may leverage the relational networks and (2) the second is to design an interface for this system (AR...).
And after the technology is finished, what then?
Art.
What do I mean by that?
Of course the technology could have all sorts of industrial uses and as well as many nefarious privacy invasion implications... but I would challenge everyone (as well as myself) to overlook the obvious and try to imagine a fluid medium where every object is a primitive that participates in building a piece of art that is both physical and virtual through the natural and programmed relationships between the space, the objects and the viewer.
Um... what do I mean by that?
I don't know yet! That's why I'm doing the project.
See you soon.
K
Posted by kurt at August 26, 2003 5:40 PMhm. so the most important part of this project is this (as I see it): an ordering / structuring alrorithm. So tagging is pretty easy (in theory, not practice), so that's not the issue. And metadata can be anything, so that really isn't the crux either. The problem to me seems that metadata, unless you define it as otherwise, is highly unstructured and variable, uncontrollable. Think about the system we designed. The content_type and placenum were pieces of metadata that were specifically defined -- and were therefore easily structured. para_1, you go with header_1, etc. how will your system sort, parse, etc. the metadata affixed to objects into communities if there is no definition, no (xml-like) spec? If I annotate a texas cow with the tag "certified agnus beef", and then annotate a texas steakhouse with "best little steakhouse in texas," what does the system do. Does it match "texas" and put both objects in a texas community? Maybe that's a start, but how does it recognize that "steakhouse" is related to "certified angus beef?" I have some suggestions here, but I just wanted to pose that as a direct question.
Posted by: will at September 4, 2003 6:50 PM
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