There's an interesting free upcoming event being hosted by the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University on November 30 titled "BIg Data: Public Policy and the Exploding Digital Corpus", which offers a great set of speakers exploring some important and neglected issues at the interfaces between the management of the historical record, the data deluge, and a range of public policy challenges.
Full information on the meeting is here:
http://citp.princeton.edu/events/big-data/Clifford Lynch Director, Coalition for Networked Information
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