On Mon, April 25, 2011 17:25, Kingsley Idehen said:
> On 4/25/11 5:14 PM, John F. Sowa wrote:
>> On 4/25/2011 1:53 PM, AzamatAbdoullaev wrote:
>>> ...
>>> I am sure that no entity is monitoring the oil/gas threats globally
>>> or locally. Say, the same Gulf of Mexico, with 50,000 oil and gas
>>> wells,
>>> to be unsealed or uncapped and abandoned without any regular technical
>>> monitoring, is nothing but an environmental "minefield" of other deadly
>>> oil-rig explosions. (01)
>> That's an excellent argument for better monitoring. But the connection
>> to a single global ontology is dubious. (02)
>> The BP spill, for example, could very easily have been prevented by
>> responsible managers who took safety seriously. BP management got
>> many, many warnings from their employees, and they ignored every last
>> one of them. More warnings coming from a computer would have been
>> just as easy for them to ignore.
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> Public access to the data (e.g., warning data about pending
> catastrophes) is key to making organizations like BP take notice and
> process warning data at the right time. (03)
Detailed data about wells being drilled: distance drilled per unit time,
pressure, temperature, chemical properties of return fluid, etc. would
certainly be proprietary data. (04)
Companies would not be willing to provide such data to the public &
therefore their competitors. (05)
-- doug foxvog (06)
> Being able to leverage the WWW as a global data space where
> conversations are machine discernible will help. Facebook, Twitter, and
> other social networking oriented data space enclaves are showing the way
> (albeit totally privacy challenged today).
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> Kingsley
>> John
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