Current activities, The Internet Foundation, Aug 2021
For the Internet Foundation I try to track all global sensor networks. One of the dramatic changes the Internet allows is integration of data from many different sensors – cameras, telescopes with cameras, microscopes with cameras, electromagnetic, gravitational, seismic, acoustic. I am trying to get them all to have standards for archiving and sharing, standards for documenting.
I did not realize that the photographs of stars are actually only photos of the light scattered in the lens and atmosphere. The blobs of light shown are tens of thousands of times larger than the star itself. But there are methods for taking pictures of the actual star, so I am trying to find and organize them.
On thousands of topics I find the people, methods, data, equations, models, groups, instruments, networks – everything on the Internet related or connected or needed to understand something. “Covid”, “global climate change”,”solar system colonization”, “allsky cameras”, “astrophotography”. In the last 23 years of the Internet Foundation, I have gone through almost 20,000 topic groups in detail. Now I work on things like “NASA.gov” and “NOAA.gov” and try to give them feedback and suggestions.
But, without exception, these topic groups are NOT working together globally. Just as schools world wide are not working together. Here is a video I made that talks about the value of having virtual schools where every person (of any age, regardless of location) can work together.
California Students Working Together Regardless of School and Class and Age and Gender and Ethnicity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtuwkfj7C5g
