Glossary:Data Geology

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The idea of a participation architecture that encourages updates that have timestamps and can be seen over time. This gives users layers of history like the rings on a tree or the rock layers that make up the geological formations on the Earth's crust. Examples include Blogs, Foursquare, Google Search Results, Facebook and Twitter. Facebook archives one's data geology, and Twitter does not.