tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post2054075966313162541..comments2016-09-25T11:33:40.810-07:00Comments on Genealogy's Star: Will all the books in the world be digitized?James Tannerhttps://plus.google.com/111292106004869462088noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-36444184140408710382014-01-08T08:29:20.735-07:002014-01-08T08:29:20.735-07:00Yes, good point. But I think that most of the work...Yes, good point. But I think that most of the work has already been done by the libraries as far as metadata and cataloging. James Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-64241517315097170432014-01-08T08:19:12.117-07:002014-01-08T08:19:12.117-07:00All I can say is… this would require a lot of time...All I can say is… this would require a lot of time to process metadata and other details associated with the digitized books, should it eventually come to pass. Although digitized books do pave the way to easier access, it’s a matter of how well they’ll handle the digital catalog and how extensive it will be that we can measure usefulness. Because digitizing for the sake of just having digital copies isn’t exactly productive.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.williamsdatamanagement.com/" rel="nofollow">Ruby Badcoe</a>Rubyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16314434089797506245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-1026373458573456582013-12-27T07:06:08.034-07:002013-12-27T07:06:08.034-07:00Hmm. I think I will look into the issue of OCR in ...Hmm. I think I will look into the issue of OCR in alternative scripts. That sounds interesting. Thanks for the comment and the idea. James Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-10249508863208339392013-12-27T06:17:16.227-07:002013-12-27T06:17:16.227-07:00Because the &#39;Inside Google Books&#39; article ...Because the &#39;Inside Google Books&#39; article refers to &quot;books of the world&quot;, I would hope that the count isn&#39;t limited to those published in the English language. However, there&#39;s no explicit mention of the issue James.<br /><br />While I can easily imagine OCR works OK for other Latin-based languages, I admit I that have no knowledge of its usage for other scripts, e.g. Cyrillic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean.<br /><br />There must be a large number of published works in the associated languages but you wouldn&#39;t find many of them in a US/UK library.<br /><br />Maybe I&#39;m just being pessimistic.Tony Proctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18330460400737261264noreply@blogger.com
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