7500 Words and Nothing's On
May 15, 2006
What happens when you write 7500 words about digitizing books without mentioning the words “markup” or “XML”? You get a breathless conclusion that, “the technology of search will transform isolated books into the universal library of all human knowledge.”
Why do so many people who discuss this issue ignore the fact that there are better ways to develop digital text, and that the approach of Google, et al, could reasonably be judged to be mediocre at best? All you have to do is look at the average journal publisher today to see much better, more flexible, and more powerful ways to do this job.
And, by the way, this is old news. In fact, it is really old news.
Posted by Bill Trippe at May 15, 2006 5:27 PM
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