Legal Research

"'Exploded Data' Blew My Mind..."

This post was written by Greg Lambert: "Somewhere between reading Jason Wilson's post on "Exploded Data, the Legal Web and What We're Missing" and Toby's post on "KM 3.0 = Analysis", my brain started to smolder from all the 'future of data' discussion. Jason takes an example of a 33 word sentence and how 66 individual pieces of "exploded data" (which looks a lot like XML structured data) were extrapolated, and the 'explosion of data' could probably have easily continued on for at least another 66 categories. Toby had talked about the predictions that the amount of information stored in the world today surpassed the zettabyte threshold and is continuing to grow as we get "better-faster-cheaper search and retrieval systems."

Wilson ends his post with these two sentences:

The question is whether we will step up to organize this sea of data, or wait until a program can do it for us. If the latter, what does it say about the future of legal research and the practice of law?..."

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Source: 3 Geeks & a Blog, 26 July 2010. Reproduced with permission of the authors.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on August 02, 2010 (boomark / email).