Dear all
Chris's useful additional pointer below - so as not to swamp the list I will
invite further information and comment to the blog entry at
http://blog.beagrie.com/?p=84
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Rusbridge [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 23 January 2009 09:54
Neil, I quite liked Dorothea Salo's reaction to this,
(http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/2009/01/02/libraries-and-the-commons/ )
and suspect her natural cynicism (!) may have nailed some of the
reasons, beyond just the credit crunch...
"... Google turned off its sneakernet mass-data service, before
really even turning it on. I have no inside intel on why this
happened, but I do have two strong suspicions: one, uptake was
minimal (which any card-carrying repo-rat could have told Google
would happen, but oh well), and two, the sad few contributed datasets
weren't anything that would set the world on fire, especially given a
critical lack of assessment or metadata or organization or anything
else that would make the data worth keeping."
It would be nice to know more of the inside story here...
--
Chris Rusbridge
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