RT @jafurtado More Metadata Problems in Google Books: Word Clouds, by Eric Rumsey http://is.gd/3P0Hv
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A month ago Geoff Nunberg wrote two articles that got much attention on Google Book Search’s “metadata trainwreck,” relating to incorrect dating of books. I discovered another metadata-ish sort of problem, as I read Lorcan Dempsey’s recent article on GBS word clouds, and the value of their “glancability” for getting a quick overview of the contents of a book.
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