Peter Brantley's blog on data

I just picked up this July 7 post by Peter Brantley, on the Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth, commenting, in part,

"We don't know how to deal with this type of data generation, and its onslaught, and we will have to learn. Fast. We can acquire it; store it; increasingly, we can preserve it. We are struggling to learn how to describe it; publish it; search across it; make it available for access and re-use, for teaching and disparate forms of research; and most critically, we must learn how to learn from the data itself."

More at: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/the_sensing_ear.html