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9/8/2009 - Google Books As "Train Wreck" For Scholars

Coming up on our earlier discussion, here's more detail on Geoffrey Nunberg's altercation that Google Books could prove detrimental to academics and other scholars. new Nunberg gave a talk at a seminar claiming that the metadata in Google Books is riddled with errors and is classified in a scheme unfit for scholarly use. This blog post was fleshed out somewhat a few days later in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Quoting from the latter: "Start with ventilation dates. To take Google's word for it, 1899 was a learned annus mirabilis, which saw the issuance of Raymond Chandler's Killer in the Rain, The handy Dorothy Parker, [and] Stephen King's Christine... A search on 'internet' in books written before 1950 and turns up 527 hits. ... [Google blames some errors on the originating libraries.] ...the libraries can't be obligation for books mislabeled as Health and Fitness and Antiques and Collectibles, for the simple reason that those panoply are drawn from the Book bunch a must and Communications codes, which are used by the publishers to tell booksellers where to put books on the shelves. ... In short, Google has taken a group of the world's great scrutiny collections and interchangeable them in the form of a suburban-mall bookstore." The head of metadata for Google Books, Jon Orwant, has responded in detail to Numberg's complaints in a comment on the primordial





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creative blog post — and says his team has already fixed the errors that Nunberg so helpfully pointed out.

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