Many initiatives, governmental and commercial, have pursued the grand vision of "transparent access," making all data available to all consumers (users and applications), in a way the consumer can interpret, anywhere and at any time.
Getting Data to Applications: Why We Fail, How We Can Do Better
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Many initiatives, governmental and commercial, have pursued the grand vision of "transparent access"—making all data available to all consumers (users and applications), in a way the consumer can interpret, anywhere and at any time. Among large-scale enterprises, success stories in achieving such visions seem rare or nonexistent. Instead of leading one more charge "over the top", we suggest that a better guiding metaphor would be "continual evolution of a partially satisfactory system". This resembles what we have today, and what we will have in 2010. The key question, then, is: "How can the builders of each system/data-resource prepare to work with partners, including future, unknown partners". We address this by identifying first steps that may offer some immediate benefits, give crucial stakeholders (metadata providers) incentives to participate, and yet fit a long term vision of greatly increased access