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Comment on Why not online civic monuments? by Who Owns Online Books? Google captures an entire industry? « Tom the Librarian

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:40:21 +0000

[...] else digitizes books) [is] cheap and easy. Books will be digitized without Google” (see my comments from a year ago). Copyright-free? Dead as civic values. Is this the legacy some of America’s [...]

Comment on Biodiversity Geek’s Haven – model for the BLC and others? by Jack Ammerman

Jack Ammerman — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:57:40 +0000

Tom,

Thanks for the good report. I’ve heard brief descriptions of this. It is an exciting project.

You might be interested in poking around in what’s being done in various “semantic web” projects. A couple places to start:

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://simile.mit.edu/

Jack

Comment on Biodiversity Geek’s Haven – model for the BLC and others? by Chris Freeland

Chris Freeland — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:47:19 +0000

Tom, many thanks for the excellent coverage here, and for your questions during the meeting! The slides from our talks are online at:
http://www.slideshare.net/chrisfreeland/biodiversity-heritage-library-for-boston-library-consortium/

and

http://www.slideshare.net/Kalfatovic/global-library-of-life-the-biodiversity-heritage-library

Comment on What do they want to know about us? Everything by And How Will They Know Everything About Us? Algorithms « Tom the Librarian

And How Will They Know Everything About Us? Algorithms « Tom the Librarian — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:17:02 +0000

[...] Algorithms are also used to make sense of folks’ daily activities – yours and mine – and provides opportunity “to respond to each customer in a personalised way.” My grocer can compare my inordinate love of orange juice with those of other juice purchasers and soon get a pretty good idea of what else I might like to buy that I am not yet already buying – and pitch me with a coupon. Amazon now tries to get us to buy two books instead of just the one we were looking for. Search engines, like Google, where algorithms underpin every results screen sent us, analyze our every browse and click. The bigger the pile of data the more precisely can be the response – as long as the algorithm sorting works. The author describes the fine art of discrimination required in creating effective and useful algorithms. Just like recipes, they require testing. This is how “they” hope to get ever closer to answering differently and well for each one of us that all important question: “what should I do on my day off tomorrow?” (See previous post.) [...]

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