Archive for the ‘Google Book Search’ Category
Friday, October 30th, 2009
The recent controversy about the Google Book Search Settlement seems to have taken up peoples' Google-watching attention so much that advances in the way GBS actually works have been getting overlooked. Several notable improvements were made during the summer, for example, that got very little recognition. Another change that seems ...
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Searching for talk on Google Books and the Settlement since Judge Denny Chin delayed the decision on October 7, I've been finding very little -- What had been a stream of chatter in Twitter searches has turned into a trickle. I found a little example reflecting this today that I ...
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
A month ago Geoff Nunberg wrote two articles that got much attention on Google Book Search's "metadata trainwreck," relating to incorrect dating of books. I discovered another metadata-ish sort of problem, as I read Lorcan Dempsey's recent article on GBS word clouds, and the value of their "glancability" for getting ...
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
Marybeth Peters, head of the US Copyright Office (part of the Library of Congress), said this in her testimony before Congress yesterday:
The Copyright Office has been following the Google Library Project since 2003 with great interest. We first learned about it when Google approached the Library of Congress, seeking to ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Just as I was about to compose two articles this morning on metadata problems in Google Book Search and in library catalogs ... lo and behold ... I came across science-publishing-library blogger Eric Hellman's article White Dielectric Substance in Library Metadata on much the same theme -- It has some ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
David Weinberger's book Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder is fascinating -- I'm especially enjoying his many original comments on metadata. So, trying out Weinberger's ideas, I search in local library catalogs for david weinberger metadata -- I get: NO ENTRIES FOUND ... Hmmm ... How ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
There's been much buzz among librarians, and others, on recent articles by Geoff Nunberg (UC Berkeley School of Information) on the "Train Wreck" state of Metadata in Google Book Search (See article references below). Nunberg certainly makes some good points. But we librarians are far from perfection in the metadata ...
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Kevin Kelly's long NY Times article in 2006 on Google Book Search has some elegant words on the transformative effect of digital books in general, beyond GBS. I'll precede excerpts from Kelly with bits from some of my recent articles, which resonate in interesting ways.
Kelly's comments parallel the static print ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
As so often happens, there are gems far down in Mike Cane's blog article (Dumb eBooks Must Die, Smart eBooks Must Live) that deserve more prominence. Cane says the real potential of eBooks will only be realized (attained) when the "hidden" metadata content is brought out (Boldface added):
All of this ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
An earlier article, Color Pictures in Google Books, discussed a few examples of color pictures in full-view books in GBS. Below are more examples in the areas of botany, medical botany, and dermatology.
Google Books titles with color pictures - Botany, Medical Botany
[Examples below link to screenshots in Flickr of Overview ...
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