Archive for the ‘Metadata’ Category
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 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), ...
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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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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Marginalia -- writing notes in the margins of books -- is not an exact fit for digital books. But the concept has been getting bantered about in a metaphorical sense to denote any kind of user annotation in digital texts. In my June article on Cathy Marshall's studies of user ...
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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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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Spurred on by positive reaction to my recent article on metadata, I did more digging in Twitter, and came across this interesting tweet from Christian Science Monitor librarian Leigh Montgomery (@CSMLibrary):
#Journalism future? 'It's in the data.' #Metadata, that is - makes the #news last, rather than a perishable commodity http://tr.im/lmetadata
9:52 ...
Posted in Libraries, Metadata, Newspapers, PicsNo, Publishing, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
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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