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- 1. {NO}THING
- 3. Apollo 1 Astronauts: Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee.
- 4. The Accident: 3. Events From Initiation Of The T-10 Minute Hold At 23:20 GMT Until The Report Of Fire. The biomedical data indicate that just prior to the fire report the Senior Pilot was performing essentially no activity (or was in the baseline "rest" condition) until about 23:30:21 GMT when a slight increase in pulse and respiratory rate was noted. At 23:30:30 GMT the electrocardiogram indicates some muscular activity for several seconds. Similar indications are noted at 23:30:39 GMT. The data show increased activity but are not indicative of an alarm type of response. By 23:30:45 GMT, all of the biomedical parameters had reverted to the baseline "rest" level. Source: This document taken from the Report of Apollo 204 Review Board-- NASA Historical Reference Collection, NASA History Office, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC. http:// history.nasa.gov/Apollo204/gallery.html
- 10. Data Formatting: Human Trace focuses on ESRI (GIS), GRIB (meteorological), GML (OS), KML and WMS (both service oriented architectures rather than straight file formats) formats. The ubiquity of XML based formats is being established within many disciplines, this is already true of GML, and KML - but can be seen in disciplines as diverse as Neuro-science (NeuroML), Chemistry (CML) and initiatives by Usman Haque to establish an Urban XML. Feeds distributed by Operating-Systems (see below) are also based on standard XML and RSS formatting.
- 11. Certainly, within the Earth Sciences, there is a fractious debate around the value, nature and meaning of ‘data’. To the instrumentalists that measure the world data is something clean and uncorrupted by human hands. For them the data collected by people, through unmediated observation, citizen science processes and historic archives is described as ‘dirty’ and therefore fallacious.
- 12. The emergence of digital imaging technologies that provide access to the photon from the edge of the universe and the atomic force that binds molecules offer us a whole new vocabulary for articulating the world. Atomic Force Microscope, Scanning Electron Microscope, X- ray computed tomography and the Radio telescope open up new dimensions, as more dimensions are unveiled, more realities are modelled and more truths envisioned. There are more things in heaven and earth than currently understood in our media philosophy.
- 24. "We must make decisions based on the real situation in the sky, not on theoretical models," Giovanni Bisignani, DG/CE International Air Transport Association. The Met Office's Numerical Atmospheric-dispersion Modelling Environment (NAME) http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100427/full/ 4641253a.html
- 27. Underpinning these Operating Systems is the understanding that the material for manifesting things that lie outside of the normal frames of reference is ‘data’ - things so far away, so close, so massive, so small and so ad infinitum. These digital practices use alchemical processes that enable a series of transformations: from data to code to experience to behaviour.
- 34. The ‘thing’ can no longer be understood as a thing but as a collection of agile sub things within the context of a larger volatile meta thing. Not being particularly well tuned to these fragments and clusters our minds, communities and institutions struggle to categorise, articulate and even recognise their significance. Consequently we need to shed the traditional technologies that see ‘things’ and instead come to terms with instruments that recognise traces, collect data and manifest temporal shifts through visualisations and sonifications.
- 35. Andrew Quitmyer h"p://www.markyourterritory.org/ h"p://goo.gl/dfypg