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- Sep 2024
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there has been no serious attempt by digital media developers to engage in a constructive public dialogue with historians of information and leading librarians. There is, perhaps, a reason for this. As Geoffrey Nunberg starkly revealed in 2009 in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Google cannot celebrate the history of indexing and cataloguing because it would draw attention to its matrix of errors. As of yet, Google Books does not work as an accurate system of cataloguing and searching for books. Nunberg showed that the seemingly clunky nineteenth-century Library of Congress Classification system is still more accurate.
A point worth repeating. I think there is a strong parallel here with algogens. The way 'progress' in released models is celebrated by e.g. Donald Clark. It beats a PhD exam, it does CT etc. What does comparison with their deep roots yield though? Keep history short so you may be the biggest giant of all time.
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