tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-418176209892776711.post1872732676782796294..comments2024-03-16T19:33:51.896-07:00Comments on Masinter's Musings: The Paperless Office and the Horseless CarriageLarry Masinterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17430215720106687178noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-418176209892776711.post-32339744856865675462019-04-21T19:19:18.675-07:002019-04-21T19:19:18.675-07:00Right, if your sources are indelible "semanti...Right, if your sources are indelible "semantic logs" (I'm including arbitrary graphs here), then you can create whatever "documents" you want -- they are just temporary artifacts generated for presentation, not the primary representation of ground truth. Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15749315552309335775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-418176209892776711.post-88612095433184250682019-04-10T15:53:45.499-07:002019-04-10T15:53:45.499-07:00Sure you can create a document to be a record of a...Sure you can create a document to be a record of an event, but unless the document is actually used in the work, there's no reason to believe that the document reflects the event.<br /><br />Redaction of the external presentation doesn't redact the data if it is replicated.Larry Masinterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17430215720106687178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-418176209892776711.post-62148605733128114502019-04-10T05:41:05.383-07:002019-04-10T05:41:05.383-07:00Auditability can be supplied by keeping a private ...Auditability can be supplied by keeping a private merkle-tree or merkle-chain (eg blockchain) and periodically publically publishing hashes (to verify that what I claim as history today can't be changed).<br /><br />Redactability can be either baked-in at publish-time, or must function as a view filter.<br /><br />Processing, and keeping context - This may be the most difficult part, because worst case it means archiving the (history of the) entire system that produced the data, to be able to re-place the data in context. Best case, given a well-known problem space, a fully reflective, self-describing document format should be okay.pjzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00937068117282447089noreply@blogger.com