[WEB4LIB] Re: New Search Tools under Development

[Chris Awre]

I also totally agree that more quality is required.  Musing aloud, to 
what extent is quality reliant upon their being quantity in the first 
place?  That is, having the data upon which the quality systems can be 
built.  I realise that those following the quantity route do appear far 
too blind to this, though, although they may at least be innocently 
providing the bedrock upon which quality information provision can be 
established.

Speaking as someone from the UK, the British Library does appear keen 
to digitise as much as it can, but also seems to be doing this in a 
targetted, service-oriented way, focussing on collections that have an 
identified use first (partly limited by budget, admittedly, but a 
useful limitation if it focusses the mind more!).

Regards,

Chris Awre
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Chris Awre
Integration Architect
e-Services Integration
Brynmor Jones Library
University of Hull
Cottingham Road
Hull HU6 7RX

T: 01482 465549
E: c.awre at hull.ac.uk
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On 12 Aug 2004, at 19:50, Thomas Dowling wrote:

> Karen Coyle wrote:
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>> It's a QUALITY issue, not a QUANTITY issue.
>>
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>
> Indeed!  When the problem is dealing with millions of search results,
> the solution can't just be to add another hundred million documents to
> search ("Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Then do it a lot more!").
>
> Gee, it's almost like the best solution would include things like
> classification systems, controlled vocabularies, and name authorities.
> But that's not as sexy as digitizing the entire Library of Congress.
>
> [Do the British wax so rhapsodic about digitising the entire British
> Library?]
>
> -- 
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
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