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

> 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.

I would agree, Thomas. 

I was including those things already under "a matter of 
helping to build, and of maintaining the accessibility of, 
ever new and better information systems". Those systems 
should as far as I'm concerned also involve as much AI 
as possible. ( Works much better than librarian 
intermediation. ) Goes likewise for visualization etc. 
etc.

I wasn't including those things under what can perhaps be 
"left to the web, the experts, and the users themselves". It's 
certain *other* things that librarians think they should be 
doing, and are trying to do, that can probably ( better ) be 
left where possible to those systems, or otherwise "to the 
web, the experts, and the users themselves".


 - Laval Hunsucker
   Breukelen, Nederland




----- Original Message ----
From: Thomas Krichel <krichel_at_OPENLIB.ORG>
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Sent: Fri, February 11, 2011 4:53:07 PM
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Watson - IBM's "question-answering" machine (potential 
implications for libraries?)

  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,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                                http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1
                                               skype: thomaskrichel



 
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