Geoffrey Nunberg on Google Book Search: "A Disaster for Scholars"

From: B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:40:21 -0700
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Geoffrey Nunberg of Berkeley's School of Information takes a critical look at Google Book Search's problems with metadata and classification. He says:"...you need reliable metadata about dates and categories, which is why it's so disappointing that the book search's metadata are a train wreck: a mishmash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess."
 
Nunberg, Geoffrey. Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars. Chronicle of Higher Education. August 31, 2009.
http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Book-Search-A/48245/
 
Bernie Sloan
Sora Associates


      
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