Facebook's quiet archiving of information from deactivated accounts has increased concerns about the network's potential abuse of private data, especially in the wake of its fumbled Beacon advertising feature.
Mark Jackson, a Byzantine archaeologist at Newcastle University in England, who was not involved in the research, called the site "fantastic," and added,"This level of preservation under such deep layers of mud suggests an extremely well-preserved archive of information".
I imagine the iPad Josie receives at school next year will have access to a vast archive of information and videos about cardinals, ones she'll be able to call up and peruse instantly.
The Web address is http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ashp/lostmuseum. Supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the site will provide students and history buffs with a full archive of information about the museum and relevant 19th-century subjects.
In the 1990s at CFP, it was unthinkable even to suggest that government officials would have automated access to a huge archive of information about individuals.
On one hand, the growing number of CI software tools, which automate retrieving and archiving of information, is likely to drive the number of external CI consultants down, warns Chris Hote, CEO of on-demand CI software Digimind, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"It's a bit of a race against time we don't want to lose this natural archive of information about past climate and ecosystem change," says Amy Hessl, a tree ring researcher at West Virginia University in Morgantown.
It's designed to be collaborative, but also to enable users to search the archive of information shared — which is a way to keep every one up to speed, or refer new hires to the happenings within an organization.
An even more daunting, challenging, and invigorating step comes next: applying that vast archive of information to the exploration of the cellular and molecular workings of the human body and the development of new and more accurate therapies for human diseases.
