Sep 3, 2009

Library Journal Sums Up Google Books Conference Debate

From Library Journal

Google, “The Last Library,” and Millions of Metadata Mistakes

Search giant says it's improving, and that a massive project inevitably means a percentage of errors

By Norman Oder

One of the most buzzed-about criticisms of the Google Book Search project, and thus the pending settlement, emerged at a conference last Friday, when Geoff Nunberg, a linguistics expert and adjunct full professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information., called Google’s project likely “the Last Library.” He proceeded to slam the quality of Google’s metadata, pointing to numerous egregious misclassifications and dates and calling the situation “a train wreck: a mish-mash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.”...

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