The Google Books Metadata Debate

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The Google Books Metadata Debate

via Stephen's Lighthouse by stephen on 9/8/09

Now this is an interesting debate that will go on a while.

Here's some links to get you started:

Google Books Metadata Includes Millions of Errors by Thomas Claburn

Google Books and Lousy Indexing (Steve Arnold and Beyond Search)

Google Books As "Train Wreck" For Scholars

Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Finding and Fixing Errors in Google's Book Catalog

Google Books: A Metadata Train Wreck

Google response (so far)

Google Books: The Metadata Mess
Google Book Settlement Conference (29 page PDF)
UC Berkeley, August 28, 2009
Geoff Nunberg, School of Information

Now I thought that OCLC had a relationship with WorldCat and Google. I wonder why there are these metadata issues when there is a decent crowdsourced database like WorldCat available.

This reminds me of one of my favourite daily blogs:

Typo of the day for librarians

Nobody's perfect.

Stephen

 

 

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