Re: Resignation

From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:16:15 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
On Aug 30, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Sperr, Edwin wrote:

> Show us.  Point us to these applications that can *currently* slurp in
> 250 pages of full text and return 5 to 7 reasonably good, controlled
> vocabulary subject headings (or topics or topic maps or well-formed
> RDF
> triples or what have you).  Point to one *real world example* of this
> happening -- not a lab, with pre-selected documents from a single
> topic
> domain, or test runs against 5 paragraphs.  This is *not* a trivial
> task. To say that it is misapprehends the entire scope of what we're
> talking about.


To some degree MyLibrary_at_Ockham automatically "cataloged" more than
430,000 documents. See:

   http://mylibrary.ockham.org/
   http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october05/morgan/10morgan.html

No, it did not map things to a predefined controlled vocabulary, but...

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Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
University Libraries of Notre Dame

(574) 631-8604
Received on Tue Sep 04 2007 - 09:19:17 EDT