Salon’s Scott Rosenberg comments on Adrian Holovaty’s recent blog post regarding structured data for journalism. He believes that storing data in structured formats is smart and useful — but he also believes that the traditional story is vitally important, as well, in part because “wordplay and nuance and music don’t fit easily into a database schema — but they’re how we encode data so it sticks with us long-term.” Hard to argue with that.
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