Hiya,
On 9/5/07, Rinne, Nathan (ESC) <RinneN_at_district279.org> wrote:
> Also, I am still puzzled as to why the potency and importance of the
> "David Johnson" example and my research suggestion is evidently so
> difficult to grasp.
It's not difficult to grasp. We're down to practicalities of obtaining
the works of every "David Johnson" and OCRing them. This is a lot of
work, and we're balancing the time it will take to do this in our
non-existent spare time to convince people on this list that it has
merit. It's a lot of work for very little gain.
I think what's also being said is that if a library / university
anywhere would put up the resources and time to actually do this (and
I would *love* you to! C'mon, I dare you!) in a small project, there's
no protest at all! We'd love you for it!
> Alexander, when I say that in order to do such a study one would have to
> rely on proven authority work, I think you misunderstand me.
I think we're on the same page ; do something new, and measure it
against the old. If new is better than old, I win. :)
> Also, in the flurry of postings, I apologize that I must have missed the
> "paper [you] pointed to which did auto-classification across Project
> Gutenberg [and] chose LCSH specifically so that librarians could verify
> the result." Do you happen to have a ref or link to that paper?
Sure ;
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/np/publications/ltg/papers/Betts2007Utility.pdf
> I do want to be involved in "future-oriented thinking" as Karen Coyle
> (by the way, I hope you will "waste [more] time" here Karen)
Ditto, even if I understand the reasons why.
> says - but
> maybe there are some who are "doubting Thomases" about that one too. :)
> But how could I prove it to you? :)
Hey, you're still talking to us, which is proof positive to me. :)
Alex
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