... And we can't forget the internal buzzwords that crop up that are
supposed to make us all look relevant. Lately it's been "discovery
portals" or some such. Is that just another name for an OPAC?
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Peter Schlumpf <pschlumpf_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I hate to say it, but 20 years or so ago, libraries had a real chance to
> somewhat shape this wave. But they just blew it by going around in circles
> in their little world like the Nowhere Man, forever chattering about the
> minutiae of MARC, AACR2 and Z39.50. The world moved on.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Dave Caroline <
> dave.thearchivist_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Alexander Johannesen
>> <alexander.johannesen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hiya,
>> >
>> > So, um, to play the part of the sour-puss;
>> >
>> > Karen says;
>> >> Google uses the text provided by web page creators to interpret
>> >> the meaning of the images; it doesn't interpret the images themselves.
>> >
>> > Just a quick correction; this was probably true a couple of years ago,
>> but
>> > nowadays that's simply not true. All (well, most; there's filters that
>> > apply) images you find through Google are indexed after an image
>> > interpreter have gone through. This won't tell you what's going on in
>> super
>> > details, of course, like interpret the meaning of some scene, but it can
>> > detect people, recognize them, tag them, detect female nipples
>> (important
>> > to the US for some reason :) ), some attributes about the weather
>> (sunny,
>> > raining, etc.), similarities to other pictures (yesterday I uploaded a
>> > bunch of pictures of our local classical musical ensemble, and similar
>> > pictures were automatically merged to form animated samples, for
>> example,
>> > in addition to automatically tag faces it recognized), dominant colors,
>> > some shape recognition and a few other bits. And note; this is only the
>> > beginning.
>> >
>>
>> hmm you reminded to re try one of my test searches
>>
>> Now google knows me and my site but does not connect any of you to my
>> site so I
>> would be interested in what you see
>>
>> Imagine you used to work for a company in the UK in the 1960's
>> or wanted to research the rumor that they used to manufacture transistors
>>
>> A google image search with "Lucas semiconductor manufacture" as the
>> term now seems to put me on top of the pile
>> I can see that google is working to recognise the content and put it
>> together.
>>
>> I saved the page, this is what I see.
>>
>>
>> http://www.collection.archivist.info/archive/mirror/google_lucas/search.html
>>
>>
>> Dave Caroline
>>
>
>
Received on Mon Jul 29 2013 - 19:35:28 EDT