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harvesting

harvesting

1 4.3
Automatically collecting data from websites or sensors for study
  • noun
  • /ˈhɑːrvɪstɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : extracción de datos
  • Although the data was publicly available, it was not in formats that allowed automatic harvesting.
  • harvesting technologies
  • harvesting systems
  • water harvesting

So I should have that's kind of a way of harvesting data to imagine a third bullet here, Freedom of Information Act.

Examples

  • The automation of all metadata harvesting and indexing processes also improves the timeliness of metadata availability.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Here's some more references for ways you can use XML and kind of simple first steps in harvesting XML from websites.

  • The Indo-British Rainfed Farming project, for example, works with 230 local groups in 70 villages on water harvesting, tree planting, and grazing land improvements.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Some activities commonly described in metadata work—namely, transformation and harvesting—may no longer be necessary within a future of linked data and RDF.

    Academic text (2014)

  • The company's software is programmed for efficient harvesting of data from social media platforms.

  • Researchers are focusing on the automated harvesting of information from various online databases.

  • With advancements in technology, the harvesting of data from multiple sources has become much easier.

Synonyms

harvest
vsharvesting
  • Texting
4 4.4

A large collection of data gathered from many sources

includes automated collection from websites APIs and sensors beyond general sources
scraping
vsharvesting
  • Texting
2 4.5

Collecting information from many web pages using computer programs

applies to automated collection from many sources including sensors and APIs not only websites

How Extensive

harvesting
  • Specialized
1 4.3
scraping
  • Texting
2 4.5
sampling
  • Specialized
20 3.9

Surface Forms

harvesting singular
harvestings plural

Morphology

harvesting = harvest (semi-transparent) = harvest + ing

The sense is a metaphorical extension from gathering crops to gathering data; the structural formation is regular but the domain shift may not be fully obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Harvesting kept the idea of gathering, so people now use it for automatic collection of information by software, often called data harvesting. A helpful way to remember this is to picture a program as a farmer that 'gathers' web pages, tweets, or sensor readings just like crops.