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swift is
1. data gathering engine (aggregator)2. data structuring tool (tagger)3. most importantly, an API for data
who swift isA product of several like-minded
nonprofit software projects.
Mesh4x Crowdsourced Crisis data Media Analytics
how?Underneath Swift is really just peopleworking together to gather as much
structured data as possible.
pull a stool up to the data assembly lineand get to work
Swift is the index cards and the highlighters.
Swift gives you blanks to fill in.
twitch games
witnessingis a fundamental to understanding the world
And yet, all of the eyewitness data is inseparable from the noise, where it will remain
for hours, or perhaps never be utilized.
Data is lost like waste heat.
We need new listening tools.
Output: API
Swift is a tool for creating structured data.
The resulting database is open, with distributed storage and standards-based portability, relying
on:
ICALFOAF
Dublin Core
InsteddTag analysis for disease prediction
evolve
The Canadians made something like this.It’s Java, closed, expensive, and limited to health data.
Europe Media Monitor does analytics like we hope to.
Newsrooms are starting to figure this out.Hashtag leadership creates a grassroots AP wire.
good with data?
now you can help
designed for speed
How do you signal to your community?(how do you post to a bulletin board?)
structured publishing
you can’t just share your SQL. Making data portable means publishing it
in structured databases. Take it to Freebase, GeoCommons, DBpedia, MusicBrainz
Dont just make it “open,” make it semantic and publish
it.