[Web4lib] Local Book iPhone application

[Brian Gray]

I would expect many, if not most users, would expect the data to be present
without them having to register their missing library and bookstore options
first In the 'net world, convenience usually takes precedence over quality
for the average information consumer.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com
bcg8 at case.edu


On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:47 PM, David Friggens <friggens at waikato.ac.nz>wrote:

> This is true, and it has its advantages and disadvantages. It's able to get
> more organisations with less work, but the quality isn't necessarily as
> good. (For example, searching locally for library brings up a number of
> schools and early childhood centres, because Google pulled the details from
> an Education Gazette job listing page and irrelevantly includes the first
> job - a children's librarian at a public library - in their descriptions.)
> It's a tradeoff between quality and speed, and both Google and LibraryThing
> have chosen the approach that works best for the goals they're working
> towards.
>