[WEB4LIB] Re: New Search Tools under Development

[Thomas Dowling]

Karen Coyle wrote:

>It's a QUALITY issue, not a QUANTITY issue.
>  
>

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