{"id":3146,"date":"2011-04-20T14:25:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T18:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2014-03-17T06:22:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T10:22:37","slug":"broadening-my-deepwater-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3146","title":{"rendered":"Broadening my Deepwater Horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten used to being cited in computer science and software engineering papers over the last decade, but here&#8217;s a new one.  Today I read a draft in which I and the GPSD project get cited a bunch of times and it&#8217;s &#8211; er &#8211; <em>not<\/em> about open source.  It&#8217;s about Marine AIS in disaster management.  Broadening my deepwater horizons, as it were.   <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You can read a PDF of <a href=\"http:\/\/vislab-ccom.unh.edu\/~schwehr\/papers\/2011-schwehr-ushydro-dwh.pdf\">Vessel Tracking Using the Automatic Identification System (AIS) During Emergency Response: Lessons from the Deepwater Horizon Incident<\/a>, but be warned that it&#8217;s pretty heavy going unless you&#8217;re deep into AIS or have a thing for disaster-management porn.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nevertheless interesting on several levels.  Kurt Schwehr, the author, writes well for an academic and manages to make the bureaucratically-clogged portions of the narrative less deadly boring than they might have been.  Both the low-comedy aspects of government reaction to the disaster and the heroic attempts to cope with the clusterfuck-in-motion come through pretty clearly.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m only a supporting player in this story, but the paper does illustrate one point I&#8217;ve been hammering on for years.  Making standards for life-critical systems proprietary is not just stupid, it&#8217;s <a href =\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=888\">evil<\/a>.  Kurt reports that some work I and the GPSD project guys did helped prevent that from being a problem in his part of the Deepwater Horizon response, and I&#8217;m pleased about that.  Next time, though, we might not get so lucky.<\/p>\n<p>Unanswered question: was GPSD running in any of the <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1934\">robot submarines<\/a> they sent in to try to plug the gusher?  Inquiring minds want to know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten used to being cited in computer science and software engineering papers over the last decade, but here&#8217;s a new one. Today I read a draft in which I and the GPSD project get cited a bunch of times and it&#8217;s &#8211; er &#8211; not about open source. It&#8217;s about Marine AIS in disaster&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=3146\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Broadening my Deepwater Horizons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-gpsd","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5530,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/5530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}