Being, Space and Time in the Web

Prior to the Web, we had hundreds of years of experience with broadcast media, from printing presses to radio and TV. Prior to email, we had hundreds of years experience with personal media – the telegraph, the telephone. But outside the Internet, we had almost nothing that supported conversation among many people at once. The radical change was de-coupling groups in space and time. To get a conversation going around a conference table or campfire, you need to gather everyone in the same place at the same moment. By undoing those restrictions, the Internet has ushered in a host of new social patterns, from the mailing list to the chat room to the weblog. (Shirky, 2003)

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Crossing the digital divide: an interoperable solution for sharing time series and coverages in Earth sciences

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science ◽

10.5194/nhess-12-3013-2012 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 12 (10) ◽

pp. 3013-3029 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

F. R. Salas ◽

E. Boldrini ◽

D. R. Maidment ◽

S. Nativi ◽

B. Domenico

Keyword(s):

Time Series ◽

Information Science ◽

Atmospheric Science ◽

Data Types ◽

Continuous Space ◽

Space And Time ◽

Accessible Information ◽

Time Space ◽

Time Domains ◽

The Web

Abstract. In a world driven by the Internet and the readily accessible information it provides, there exists a high demand to easily discover and collect vast amounts of data available over several scientific domains and numerous data types. To add to the complexity, data is not only available through a plethora of data sources within disparate systems but also represents differing scales of space and time. One clear divide that exists in the world of information science and technology is the disjoint relationship between hydrologic and atmospheric science information. These worlds have long been split between observed time series at discrete geographical features in hydrologic science and modeled or remotely sensed coverages or grids over continuous space and time domains in atmospheric science. As more information becomes widely available through the Web, data are being served and published as Web services using standardized implementations and encodings. This paper illustrates a framework that utilizes Sensor Observation Services, Web Feature Services, Web Coverage Services, Catalog Services for the Web and GI-cat Services to index and discover data offered through different classes of information. This services infrastructure supports multiple servers of time series and gridded information, which can be searched through multiple portals, using a common set of time, space and concept query filters.

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Being, Space, and Time on the Web

Philosophical Engineering ◽

10.1002/9781118700143.ch6 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 77-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michalis Vafopoulos

Keyword(s):

Space And Time ◽

The Web

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‘De-Coupling Groups in Space and Time’

Cases on Assessment and Evaluation in Education ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2621-8.ch024 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 588-610

Author(s):

Kevin Burden ◽

Simon Atkinson

Keyword(s):

Radical Change ◽

Mailing List ◽

The Internet ◽

Chat Room ◽

Years Of Experience ◽

Broadcast Media ◽

Social Patterns ◽

Space And Time ◽

Personal Media ◽

The Web

Prior to the Web, we had hundreds of years of experience with broadcast media, from printing presses to radio and TV. Prior to email, we had hundreds of years experience with personal media – the telegraph, the telephone. But outside the Internet, we had almost nothing that supported conversation among many people at once. The radical change was de-coupling groups in space and time. To get a conversation going around a conference table or campfire, you need to gather everyone in the same place at the same moment. By undoing those restrictions, the Internet has ushered in a host of new social patterns, from the mailing list to the chat room to the weblog. (Shirky, 2003)

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Listening through Webs for/of Creole Improvisation

Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation ◽

10.21083/csieci.v14i2.6585 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (2-3) ◽

Author(s):

Sam Yulsman ◽

Jessie Cox

Keyword(s):

Web Performance ◽

Performance Space ◽

Space And Time ◽

Alternative Practices ◽

Modes Of Engagement ◽

Historical Origins ◽

The Web

Our paper reflects on our experience with Weaving Music II—a web performance space we built with fifteen artists working across different disciplines. The website and our essay attempt to create alternatives to the “at-the-same-timeness” of streaming technologies as well as the forms of listening defined by data capitalism and corporate platforms like Google and YouTube. At the heart of the alternative practices we propose is an embrace of what we see as the creolizing potentiality of the Web and of listening. To unpack these potentialities, the essay and artwork critically reflect on listening that occurs through Afrofuturistic modes of engagement with technology, space and time. We consider the historical origins of Web improvisations, our approach to collaboration using Weaving Music II, and theories of information that move beyond the need for predefined codes of understanding.

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