On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:37, Weinheimer Jim <j.weinheimer_at_aur.edu> wrote:
> In any case, the world must move on, and web masters will not and cannot wait
> until the library community is ready to share their information and their knowledge.
> Average searchers will be more or less satisfied by what they get. Libraries and
> catalogers could have a huge role to play in this world, but I don't know if this
> will happen.
Exactly. Not only is the library world missing out on perhaps one of
the best ways to make themselves relevant in the future, but who here
seriously think that the Google data won't improve? Not only improve,
but improve in ways that the library world haven't got a competing
edge to, such as social meta data and mining from the billions of
other pages around the world Google have already indexed. Google is
serious about books and tries to fix the meta data problem (as the
library world doesn't seem to want to help), while the library world
looks like they've closed the doors. Is that what you want, to leave
bibliographic meta data to others? I'm puzzled.
Alex
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