from today's nyt mag cover story on the soon-to-be-reality digital universal library:
"Once a book has been integrated into the new expanded library by means of this linking, its text will no longer be separate from the text in other books. For instance, today a serious nonfiction book will usually have a bibliography and some kind of footnotes. When books are deeply linked, you'll be able to click on the title in any bibliography or any footnote and find the actual book referred to in the footnote. The books referenced in that book's bibliography will themselves be available, and so you can hop through the library in the same way we hop through Web links, traveling from footnote to footnote to footnote until you reach the bottom of things."
omigod, omigod, omigod!
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1 comment:
It won't really matter if "all the world's knowledge" is digitized, if it is not also efficiently indexed. Sure you'll be able to click on footnotes in electronic texts, but if you want to search for "the Treaty of Paris" or "American Imperialism 1898" how many records will come up? And who will determine the "authority" of each record?
Noble, but still flawed.
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