All,
I originally sent this message to the interoperability list
(http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/interoperability/) last Friday, and some
discussion has begun there.
It's been suggested that the thread might also be of interest to lis-elib/ir
subscribers...?
Paul
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Miller [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, 3 March 2000 19:24
> To: Interoperability
> Subject: Automated indexing or manual cataloguing...?
>
>
> All,
>
> I've heard a few people now who have suggested that we soon won't
> need complex query/search standards like Z39.50
> (http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/z3950/), or controlled
> terminologies and thesauri such as those discussed at the recent
> MODELS workshop (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlis/models/models11/ and
> to be reported in Issue 23 of Ariadne by the end of the month -
> http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/).
>
> Some of these suggest that we will be as well simply indexing our
> large resources (our library OPACs, museum catalogues, or
> whatever) with Alta Vista-like crawlers [I know that databases
> like these are rarely visible to such crawlers at the moment, but
> they *could* be...]. Others point to the emergence of powerful
> tools such as Autonomy (http://www.autonomy.com/, discussed in a
> recent Wired article at
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.02/autonomy.html), and argue that we
won't need to index/catalogue at all; these tools will simply extract
meaning from the mass of data we pump into them. Whilst it does appear that
Autonomy et al become better as their data pool grows, just how good can
they become...?
I'd be interested in any thoughts people have on this, and especially in any
information you might have on tests that have been done to compare costs and
retrieval for the different approaches...
Paul
-- dr. paul miller - interoperability focus -- [log in to unmask] --
u. k. office for library and information networking (ukoln)
tel: +44 (0)1482 466890 mobile: +44 (0)7710 481812
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