Dear Kingsley,
You wrote:
This is also why
'Attribution' is something that needs to be fixed across all value chains. I do
really believe that the Web provides good infrastructure for this particular
problem since it enables us leverage hyperlinks as both generic names and data
access addresses. Thus, contributors ultimately end up with a more versatile
branding and imprint mechanism for their contributions.
Kingsley
Nice idea! But how would “attribution
marks” be preserved under such examples as the Gene Ontology, with later rebranders
using their own web sites for the references to outside links?
To be clearer, there is no currently safe
way for an IP developer to permanently mark her work. With current technology,
copyrights and trade secrets, even trademarks can be copied, modified only
slightly, and made available under completely different branding without giving
any “attribution” to the original site, e.g., GO.
The IP content producing industries have
studied how to do this, and come up with such things as water marks, but
nothing so far has been able to protect any form of IP from casual
deconstruction. Witness the Blue Ray drive; dongles; encrypted software;
songs; movies; books; … . So far, nothing can stop the repatriazation of
IP in any form. If there is a way, you should certainly patent it. Protection
like that could be worth a great deal of money.
But I think it is unlikely that IP can be
protected by any technological approach. If so, the only way “attribution”
can be preserved is willingly, through consent of the rebrander. For that to
happen, there must be some self interest to both the rebrander, for providing
attribution, and some self interest for the IP owner, for cooperating with the
rebranders’ links.
Google, for example, pries value from
rebranding web sites and advertisers in ways that are responsive to the self
interest of searchers. So google gets revenues through rebranding; advertisers
pay money to google to get ads shown; web site owners invest in SEO to make
their sites more widely accessible, and the whole thing is an economic dance of
self interest by each and every class of players.
Do you have any thoughts you’re
willing to share on how “attribution” can be made attractive to ontology
rebranders, i.e., in their own self interest? The GO example is a very good
one; how would rebranders satisfy self interests by rebranding GO knowledge?
If there are such, how can the solutions
be reproduced for other ontology web sites, in other economy scales? Is there
a general solution to the problem, or is self interest too much of an art at
this stage in technology? Could a self interest ontology be created to record
the solution(s)?
Curiously,
-Rich
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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On 4/7/12 2:09 PM, Rich
Cooper wrote:
Dear Kingsley,
You wrote
Show me an innovator and
I'll unravel a person that's had to solve a really frustrating personal problem
that became a product. The much celebrated Steve Jobs is a prominent example,
and of course there are many others :-)
Nicely exemplified. Other examples
are the classically celebrated inventors such as Thomas Edison (who actually
just funded developments to reach goals he set for the actual problem solving
engineers he hired), Nicolai Tesla (one of his engineers), Alex Graham Bell
(who built on the shoulders of EM theorists), and Henry Ford (who solved the
practical problems of economical construction of cars). They were all
individuals, who organized other individuals and accepted the others’
contributions as their own. Work for hire laws distort whose intellectual
contributions were actually recognized and rewarded financially.
This is also why 'Attribution' is something that needs to be
fixed across all value chains. I do really believe that the Web provides good
infrastructure for this particular problem since it enables us leverage
hyperlinks as both generic names and data access addresses. Thus, contributors
ultimately end up with a more versatile branding and imprint mechanism for
their contributions.
Kingsley
-Rich
Sincerely,
Rich
Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT
EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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On 4/7/12 12:20 PM, Rich Cooper wrote:
The point of the article, as I see it, is
that individuals following self interest are the originators of knowledge,
sharers of knowledge, and the source of social progress. Grouping people
into political units (such as religious movements, democracies, socialist
states, dictatorships, pick your favorite or most reviled instance) is what
turns the groups ultimately toward the dark side.
Great point!
Some use the moniker 'Game Theory' for what your excerpt above.
Show me an innovator and I'll unravel a person that's had to solve a really
frustrating personal problem that became a product. The much celebrated Steve
Jobs is a prominent example, and of course there are a many others :-)
My passion for data access was the product of frustrations I had eons ago,
while working as an accountant. I couldn't understand why Lotus 123 and other
productivity tools didn't have seamless hooks into back-end relational
databases :-)
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