Users then input contextual data tags like time of day, type of activity and the surrounding environmental conditions to allow them to track variables that may affect their focus.
Colored squares on the data tags for airplanes on the controller's radar screen change as pilots respond so that controllers get an extra visual cue in case a pilot doesn't see a message.
If viruses do appear in smart tags, said the researchers, they are likely to cause problems for companies that read data off the tags.
Companies might also find that the massive job of going through all their existing data and inserting semantic tags is just too daunting a job to tackle, even if it might save time and money somewhere down the line.
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Grokker acts as a plug-in that sits on top of a search engine and, by reading tags written into the data with the XML software language, arranges the results of a search into a ring of spheres or an array of squares labeled to show each one's relationship.
"I don't foresee anything changing, " he says, citing emerging data floods from global positioning systems, radio-frequency identification tags and Homeland Security regulations.
Into this mass of data the producers have injected cross-references and geo-tags, films and sound clips, archival photographs and rare historical maps.
The tool is one of the boldest uses so far of the computer-readable "XBRL tags" that are increasingly being attached to financial data around the world to enable easier comparisons between businesses.
These tags are similar in concept to the familiar HTML labels that help format text and other data on webpages.
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