2013-09-06: Wolfram Data Summit 2013 Trip Report
I was fortunate enough to be invited to present at the 2013 Wolfram Data Summit in Washington DC, September 5-6, 2013. My talk was about the future of web archiving, but the focus of the data summit was " big data ". As such, there was a variety of disciplines represented at the summit since the unifying factor was the scale of the data. Logistics dictated that I missed several of the presentations, but many of the ones I did attend were very engaging. The slides will be posted at the Wolfram site later, but I'll provide some short summaries below (2013-11-26 edit: the presentations are now available ). First was Greg Newby presenting about Project Gutenberg , the long-running collection of free ebooks. His focus was on PG as a portable collection, which is subtly different from universal access from different interfaces (even if the interface is just Google). The focus was more on PG as a collection to be explored and personalized services to b...