My favorite part is when he ask the software to return a bibliographic
record matching 245 10$aFaust.$nPart one
and the computer literally catches fire.
Artificial intelligence is no match for the MARC format.
On May 4, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Frumkin, Jeremy wrote:
> Seems more like a conversation for web4lib than code4lib, however, I
> always find it intriguing that somehow there is this notion that
> technology and libraries are at odds. While Alexander talks about
> this being "another nail in the coffin", I look at this (and other
> emerging technologies) are new support and information tools that
> can be used by libraries. Hmmm.
>
> -- jaf
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> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
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> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Another nail in the coffin
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> I always intrigued with everything that has knowledge management or
> information management aspect of it. I'm more intrigued with the
> possibility that this tool might be able to work on presenting the
> information based on the context.
>
> Scouring the Twine site gave me this:
>
> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/see_wolfram_alpha_in_action_-_video_and_screenshots.php
>
> I personally think this is a darn cool stuff, from the computing point
> of view. I'll wait until it's out sometime this month to see what
> kind of results I would get.
>
>
> ranti.
>
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Alexander Johannesen
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>> Another nail in the library coffin, especially the academic ones ;
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TIOH80Qg7Q
>>
>> Organisations and people are slowly turning into data producers, not
>> book producers.
>>
>>
>> Alex
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