High-definition Data
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Verifiable Claims are a new type of data resource with high-definition qualities. This represents a unique new class of information. High-definition data has very many useful applications in the digital world that could profoundly change how society operates in the physical world, as this is the basis for establishing webs of trust, between people, machines and information.Data captured in this format can be high in resolution and high in fidelity. This article explains the core concepts of these new standards and proposes how thinking about data having ‘high-definition’ qualities could produce engineering and #data-science breakthroughs.Let’s start with some easy information theoryInformation theory is a way of explaining how information gets quantified, stored and communicated. I would (...)