Researchers hope search engine will shed light on dark data | PBS NewsHour

As much as 90 percent of information on the Internet is “dark” — locked
away in clunky or outdated formats that makes it difficult, sometimes
impossible, to access.

Kenton McHenry gets frustrated just talking about what he had to go through
to open a research paper in the now-obsolete format PostScript. That was in
2000, when he was still a college student. First he had to download a
viewer and then uncompress the document before he could read the article —
all to determine if it even had information he could use.

“It would drive me nuts,” he said. “I don’t want the tools to uncompress
the thing. I just want the data.”


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