{"id":892,"date":"2013-02-10T15:20:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T15:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=892"},"modified":"2013-02-11T10:21:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T10:21:30","slug":"a-transactional-database-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"A transactional database of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Final thoughts, inspired by the Geodesign summit 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=867\">This is part 5 of a larger blog post, you can read the introduction here.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-911\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?attachment_id=911\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-911\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-911\" alt=\"Possible but is it desir\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bluemarblewiki.jpg?resize=270%2C270\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bluemarblewiki.jpg?w=270&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bluemarblewiki.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Possible but is it desirable?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the summit <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Dangermond\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Dangermond<\/a>\u00a0told us of his idea of creating a <em>transactional database of the world<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 I think a central repository of all scientific knowledge in relation to the earth.\u00a0\u00a0 A place where anyone with a computer and access to the internet could access all the sensor logs and all the analytical models that existed.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Now there is an amazing if a little scary idea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think as long as no one organisation or government has total control over this database then it may have a huge amount of uses for humanity and the planet.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>The real implementation issues are not technical though, it&#8217;s the financial, political and social aspects. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/index.cfm\/pageid\/48\" target=\"_blank\">Perhaps this EU INSPIRE directive is the start of it all then?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Internet of things\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=895\">Next 6\u00a0Internet of things<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part 5 of a larger blog post, you can read the introduction here. At the summit Jack Dangermond\u00a0told us of his idea of creating a transactional database of the world.\u00a0\u00a0 I think a central repository of all scientific knowledge in relation to the earth.\u00a0\u00a0 A place where anyone with a computer and access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[146,64,156,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-conference","category-esri","category-geodesign","category-workflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}