Archive for the ‘Hardin MD’ Category
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
[This article accompanies previous article: Tagging in Hardin MD]
Soon after the launching of Hardin MD, in 1996, we began adding keywords in the hidden META keyword field (The first pages for HMD in Internet Archive [Dec, 1998] show them on all pages checked.) We began checking to see if HMD ...
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
All Hardin MD (HMD) pages have tags at the bottom, to make them more visible for search engines i.e. Google. We have been doing tagging in HMD since 2000, and it works very well. As shown in the example to the left, the tags are for variant spellings (measels), ...
Posted in Google, Hardin MD, Library Catalog, Metadata, PicsYes, Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Google Flu trends is an elegant application of search data to medicine. Working on Hardin MD, I’ve long noticed seasonal variations in certain diseases — Colds, flu, & respiratory illnesses peak in winter, and insect bites & sun exposure conditions peak in summer. I pay a lot of attention to ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
In the last year, we've begun to include the copyright status of pictures on Hardin MD pages. We have especially done this to show which pictures are not under copyright and are therefore free to copy.
Recently Peter Brantley suggested that libraries should make it easy for users to find public ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Finding a heavily illustrated book that's in both Google Books (GBS) and Internet Archive (IA) gives a good comparison of the strengths and weaknesses in the way illustrated books are presented in these systems.
Shown below are the "intro" pages for the book in the 2 systems. The clear advantage of ...
Posted in DjVu, Google Book Search, Hardin MD, Internet Archive, Navigation, PicsYes, Thumbnails, Uncategorized, eBooks | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
"Flickr takes the sun out of the sunset" -- The picture to the left from Flickr shows the full picture and its square thumbnail, in the inset. Thumbnails like these are generated automatically by Flickr and other photo management systems. They work by taking a portion from the ...
Posted in ContentDM, Flickr, Hardin MD, Human input, Pattern recognition, PicsYes, Thumbnails, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Over the last three years, we have added close to 800 pictures on about 100 diseases/conditions to Hardin MD.
As the volume of pictures has grown, providing access to them becomes more difficult. For some time, we have grouped pictures on specific disease conditions into small galleries, each with about 3-12 ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Users of Hardin MD will notice that the word "pictures" is used frequently on our pages and the word "images" is rarely used. Why is this? Basically, the answer is simple -- We use "pictures" because that's the word people use in searching.
The screen-shots below, for the Hardin MD : ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
As computers have become more powerful, many of the aspects of handling text that were formerly done by humans have been taken over by computers. Pictures, however, are much more difficult to automate -- Recognizing patterns remains a task that humans do much better than computers. A human infant can ...
Posted in Google, Hardin MD, Human input, Image Search, Pattern recognition, PicsNo, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
