[WEB4LIB] Re: New Search Tools under Development

[Michael Whang]

LOL! (the doctor analogy is hilarious)  I couldn't agree with you
more. 
That just made my day

:->

Michael Whang
WMU Libraries 



>>> Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu> 8/12/2004 2:50:53 PM
>>>
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