Dr. Baumann,
Lighting my torch...;-)
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Baumann, Peter
p.baum...@jacobs-university.de wrote:
Finally, my personal 2 cents: I feel the future is with services, not
formats will decide in future. Do I care, in my browser, whether I see PNG
or JPEG or...GIF? http
absolutely so! If you want to access data items as a whole piece, and the item
fits through the pipe conveniently then I am fully on board. However, sometimes
we want to get pieces that fit the pipe (and convenient for us to chew), and we
want something to be done - my favorite example on
Peter,
Yep, sometimes users don't want to bite off the whole piece.
Personally, I feel the future is a mix of open data formats (XML, CSV, JSON
etc) and open data services...
Regards,
Jeff
Jeff Harrison
The Carbon Project
Twitter: @JeffHarrison
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 8, 2013, at 5:55
good point you make, Jeff - maybe we should see both as two sides of the same
coin, actually.
-Peter
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