A Google for a European digital library virtual: a pragmatic path.
As stated by the Minister of Culture and Communication (Le Monde, 18 March 2005):
"Beyond digitization, the Internet, with search engines, inaugurates a new form of access to knowledge. We probably have to learn from Google, whose success comes largely from its simplicity and ease of access. "
This new form of access to knowledge is very worrying because we know the true power of this engine, unless the technologies it uses. On the one hand its search algorithm which makes its success is based on what is called the pageranking. The more a site is listed, the higher its ranking in the order of answers will be better. We see using it that ads are: it Google adwords technology based on an auction of brand names. (On this point we must note several condemnations by French courts. "In October 2003, the Nanterre court sentenced him for the first time Google for infringement of trademarks on the tour operator online 'Exchange of Flight'. Last December The same Court of Nanterre has again ordered Google on the same ground as a result of a complaint filed by the Hotel Meridien. Friday, February 4, Google has been convicted for the third time and again under the same grounds infringement trademark, pursued by the group LVMH's luxury brand Louis Vuitton. The search engine scoop of 200 000 euros in damages for trademark infringement, unfair competition and misleading advertising. "Reminds us www.silicon.fr site. The same source shows us what we are heading towards a feature available only to U.S., in beta, autolink. Quickly dubbed "the devil" by users. "Take an example: we asked as a query ISBN (U.S. code) of a book. Button 'AutoLink' was then transformed into "Show Book Info". A click on what looks like a book information sought, and opens a new window in Internet Explorer that displays the page of the book ... the site looked on Amazon.com! "
Google insidiously introduced (intentionally or not) a mass of knowledge. A bit like a library acquisition policy based his books on the number of copies sold. It's actually quite logical to see it, we live for several years under the dictatorship of the ratings and let us TF1 brags buy us time to brain. Our politicians have understood this, and have adopted this technique to adapt their speech to their target voters, which is slightly more evolved, admittedly, the famous housewife least fifty years. But that does not raise the quality of political debate, it flattens the.
The W3C is responsible for laying down standards of the Web is working on a new concept of Semantic Web. Can be found at the URL: http://www.urfist.cict.fr/lettres/lettre28/lettre28-22.html, a translation of the seminal article on this concept, written by Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila and which appeared in Scientific American. Tim Berners-Lee is not anyone, he is the inventor of the World Wide Web while working at CERN. And it's April 22, 1993, date or a young student, Marc Andreessen is available to all Internet browser Mosaic, which was a smash hit the Internet became easily accessible to the general public and the adventure began. Naive and enthusiastic at that time I never imagined that it would turn into a nightmare.
Read this article. This is not science fiction, it will happen, and I am sure that Tim is sure that will improve our lives. Assessment services needed by the intelligent agent Pete to find the doctor will be ad hoc commercial structures, with all the predictable excesses. Personally I think Pete is wrong to challenge the choice of agent and replace the University Hospital for a clinic closer to home, then it depends on the illness of his wife.
Standardization of knowledge and need to think, what a dream, it will be much more available to watch advertisements on television or on his 3G phone (which has also
absolutely no need for it to be UMTS is a single chip implementation in the phone that picks up radio waves and television shows, but a good marketing ploy, it becomes unnecessary to tell the truth to the consumer. Already I find it quite amazing to see so many people walking down the street, at first I thought she was talking to herself, with headphones in your ears for phone calls, listen to music from a phone that can now photograph The latest techno trendy is the moblogging that allows you to directly send the photo is just taken on his blog. You know that future phones will be equipped with hard drives, so that we can download music from their mobile phone. I can not imagine the bills of mobile addicts. The operators have no choice, telephony Typically, the POTS as saying the Anglo-Saxons (plain old telephone system) decreases, the boxes have to triple play IP telephony, TV, Internet access through ADSL make the phone almost free. And then these boxes are wireless, wireless technology, which allows us to remove all cables connected to our USB hubs are chained so ad'extension to the computer. We can again start the robot vacuum without air we put in our cables.
The newspaper Le Monde in its supplements, has an article on a population very intriguing, people who have no phone. It is true, how do they do? There are still some crazies, I saw several hundred on March 16 to attend a conference
Don Zagier "Ramanujan to Hardy, from the first to the last letter" in the small auditorium (Archie more crowded, it n 'There was no room on the steps) of the BNF. In addition to this extraordinary conference, a genius at work live, it is understood that he also holds the chair of number theory at the College de France, was completed after 20h. The 20h missed, especially the ad that follows it.
I found on Gallica, the digital library French, which indeed has some usability flaws in its interface to access if it does not usually go to a library, the original obituary Ramanujan made by Hardy at a meeting of the British Mathematical Society. Make the effort to find this document, and watch it (read the same!). If Google has invented a revolutionary technology to skip this document to the OCR for the text to the share price will reach heights never seen. Remember that there Not long ago, a few years, said AltaVista was the ultimate search engine and you would never better. I think the devil is in Google and that the company will disappear as others that were previously missed, promised a bright future, Netscape for example.
Internet works because it is a decentralized model. The fantasy of having five million volumes collected in one place is against the logic of the internet, always the same story logic of datagram (connectionless) mode per packet (connected mode). What is true for network layers is also the content.
Librarians have a huge competitive advantage over search engines, if there is something they do to perfection is the indexing of relevant books. The MARC standard and its variations did not wait for Google!
I move to beat the Americans at their own game by being like them in a pragmatic sense, but unlike them not on a commercial basis.
Now there is a technology known to the public with a name very barbaric: OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative's Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) which is fully adapted to the library world, besides the Ministry of Culture and Communication, via the Department of books and reading promotes this technology: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/dll / OAI-PMH.htm.
An example being better than a speech, if this harvester OAI http://www.oaister.org/o/oaister/
you are looking for books Cauchy scanned the net, and you put Cauchy in the "Search all fields" answers you have 2759 digitized books available in about 60 libraries with specific information, such as the BNF:
Record 1 of 4
Title Complete works of Augustin Cauchy. 1st ser. Volume X. / Publ. eds. Scientific Academy of Sciences.
Author / Creator Cauchy. Augustin-Louis. Contributor
Academy of Sciences. France. Publisher
Gauthier-Villars. Paris
Year 1897 Resource Type text
Resource Type Format Resource monograph
image / pdf eng
Language Notes University of Orsay
Subject Mathematics. - 19th century
URL http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=oai:bnf.fr:gallica/NUMM-90190
Rights Stock institution
Gallica: The Digital Library of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France
It is
cataloged a book by someone whose job it is.
The same query in Google you will get lots of hits on this French mathematician (remember, the Cauchy sequences which allow the construction of the toughest field of real numbers), but if you search using a digitized book available on the internet, good luck.
I come to tell me what's great about Google is that the responses we make the issue.
The idea seems to be in tune with the times in view of the mission entrusted by the President of the Republic Minister of Culture and Communication and chair of the National Library of France to build a European digital library and a virtual 'European Google' is excellent, provided that this library is distributed especially not centralized, and we put agreed that each library to set up an OAI server in order to find the books as a search engine library, with a specific intellectual logic, which involves cataloging, but it is already done for the paper edition and certainly put on computer, so it is only extracting a database to another, and OAI harvesters such as the University of Michigan. In technical terms we say that the OAI are stored in warehouses, and we call harvesting (metadata harvesting, MH OAI-PMH) to harvest the fact of these meta data warehouses.
must of course reflect on aspects of multilingualism, but libraries know exchanging data with libraries in other countries.
This project is:
· Realistic as demonstrated on more than 5 million volumes in over 400 libraries across the world.
¸ aise to implement.
· Little expensive for the implementation of OAI harvesters which will search the meta data from across Europe.
· Scientist: search criteria are those long used in all libraries in the world. This avoids the catch-all "to Google."
° does not need a revolutionary technology, the technology is.
• Observe standards of the Internet.
• Observe the logic of the Internet.
· The money will be needed to accelerate the digitization programs already in place.
I heard about robots turning the pages of books and scanning them at high speed. To go even faster, Google is expected to propose trimming books, losing a good binder we will not make a drama. How will they do for the brittle books? We have a side effect of the announcement, which seemed to many unrealistic and untrue, the other a project that can be operational in a few months and that values the library profession and ensures that relevant scientific results.
It seems to me that there is no comparison. 