Project Bigfoot

Consider this scenario. A library’s collection contains a rare and precious book. In theory, the content of the book is truly valuable. In reality, a search in Google doesn’t produce a single result for it. In fact, very few people know that the book is available.

Potentially the book may have value but, for most people, it might as well not exist. Sadly, this situation is all too common. And it’s not restricted to books. Historically, many forms of content, whether that’s metadata, videos, images or text, are trapped within islands of content. Different systems hold different content in different ways.

Now imagine an alternative where multiple applications all made use of the same core data, reusing and remixing it to serve the user’s needs – whatever those were.

The result would be that data could be used far more dynamically and become part of a richer, better experience for its consumers.

Talis Bigfoot, using Web 2.0 technologies, offers a way of removing these silos and sharing content more freely by creating an intermediation layer. This platform hides the technical complexities of how content can be shared among multiple applications – making it easier for content providers to deliver content and enhancing how content consumers receive it.

This white paper discusses these issues and introduces Project Bigfoot.

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