There is seemingly no limit to the excited claims surrounding the possibilities of databases to reconfigure authorship through data liberation and social empowerment. But of course, the database is not new. It just becomes more interesting when it’s integrated with network capabilities and virtual systems. These new tools let us play with how databases are used and what they do, and let us do more than just access the discrete documents they love so much to store.
Changing the context changes how we derive meaning from data, but with each new liberty we must admit a corresponding forfeit. Will the database really set us free?
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