Re: Watson - IBM's "question-answering" machine (potential implications for libraries?)

From: Thomas Krichel <krichel_at_nyob> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:53:07 +0100 To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU

  Laval Hunsucker writes

> The rest can perhaps indeed without regret be left to the web,
> the experts, and the users themselves.

  Things like digital preservation, repositories, structured metatdata
  services, recommender services etc don't just appear. Somebody has
  to build them. They provide equivalents of what physical libraries
  used to do. If we don't look at this as our job, we will be much
  reduced in the future.

  Cheers,

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