The Urkesh Global Record (Version 1, Beta release)

Theory. Browser edition. Principles: data

Globality

Giorgio Buccellati – January 2026

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Beyond a sense of limit

Since the start of data processing there was a clear sense that the quantity was not a limiting factor. Since the inception of the digital age, technological progress has been developing at a relentless pace, always one step ahead of the perceived need for control.

In this perspective, globality means that the size of the inventory to be controlled is not effectively a limiting factor: we may include everything we want to. We only need to adjust to the conditions set out by whatever medium we choose to use for the storage of the inventory we have in mind at the moment.

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Raw data

Since the earliest days of computing, the phrase “garbage in, garbage out” served to indicate that the inventory ought never to be based on raw data.

ceramics total, nothing left out

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Big data

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