Editor's note: This post was submitted by Brian Wee, NEON as a guest post from a Type I ESIP. Thanks Brian! NEON has a blog too.
A fair number of us have spent at least parts of our professional lives fretting over data representation. How do we accurately capture real-world processes in a way that captures the relationships between entities and manage the data such that it is amendable for processing? Can we sufficiently represent the state of ‘reality’ with sufficient fidelity so that we can resuscitate a representation of that reality on demand? How do we enable technical interoperability to facilitate data discovery and retrieval, semantic interoperability to facilitate data integration, plus all the other forms of interoperability that one may choose to define?
