Google And The Myth Of Universal Knowledge

Author : Ian Wilson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459627474
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge written by Ian Wilson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent announcement that Google would digitize the holdings of several major libraries sent shock waves through the book industry and academe. Google presented this digital repository as a first step towards a long - dreamed - of universal library, but skeptics were quick to raise a number of concerns about the potential for copyright infrin...

Author : Ian Wilson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459627474
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge written by Ian Wilson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent announcement that Google would digitize the holdings of several major libraries sent shock waves through the book industry and academe. Google presented this digital repository as a first step towards a long - dreamed - of universal library, but skeptics were quick to raise a number of concerns about the potential for copyright infrin...

Author : Gerlinde Schuller
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing Universal Knowledge written by Gerlinde Schuller and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication draws upon historical milestones to explore the meaning of 'universal knowledge' as well as the process of collecting, structuring, designing, and publishing it.

Author : Richard J. Cox
Publisher : Library Juice Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1936117452
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Demise of the Library School written by Richard J. Cox and published by Library Juice Press, LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Demise of the Library School, Richard J. Cox places the present and future of professional education for librarianship in the debate on the modern corporate university. The book is a series of meditations on critical themes relating to the education of librarians, archivists, and other information professionals, playing off of other commentators analyzing the nature of higher education and its problems and promises.

Author : Joshua Ehrlich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009367994
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge written by Joshua Ehrlich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful, not to say notorious, corporation. But for many of its advocates from the 1770s to the 1850s it was also the world's most enlightened one. Joshua Ehrlich reveals that a commitment to knowledge was integral to the Company's ideology. He shows how the Company cited this commitment in defense of its increasingly fraught union of commercial and political power. He moves beyond studies of orientalism, colonial knowledge, and information with a new approach: the history of ideas of knowledge. He recovers a world of debate among the Company's officials and interlocutors, Indian and European, on the political uses of knowledge. Not only were these historical actors highly articulate on the subject but their ideas continue to resonate in the present. Knowledge was a fixture in the politics of the Company – just as it seems to be becoming a fixture in today's politics.

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745650430
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Social History of Knowledge II written by Peter Burke and published by Polity. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text argues that activities which appear to be timeless are in fact time-bound and take different forms in different periods and places. The book also tries to counter the tendency to write a triumphalist history of the 'growth' of knowledge by discussing losses of knowledge and the price of specialization.

Author : Deanna Marcum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691224374
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Along Came Google written by Deanna Marcum and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital library Libraries have long talked about providing comprehensive access to information for everyone. But when Google announced in 2004 that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and responsibilities of libraries, the rights of authors and publishers, and whether a powerful corporation should be the conveyor of such a fundamental public good. Along Came Google traces the history of Google's book digitization project and its implications for us today. Deanna Marcum and Roger Schonfeld draw on in-depth interviews with those who both embraced and resisted Google's plans, from librarians and technologists to university leaders, tech executives, and the heads of leading publishing houses. They look at earlier digital initiatives to provide open access to knowledge, and describe how Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page made the case for a universal digital library and drew on their company's considerable financial resources to make it a reality. Marcum and Schonfeld examine how librarians and scholars organized a legal response to Google, and reveal the missed opportunities when a settlement with the tech giant failed. Along Came Google sheds light on the transformational effects of the Google Books project on scholarship and discusses how we can continue to think imaginatively and collaboratively about expanding the digital availability of knowledge.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chambers's Encyclopedia A dictionary of universal knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Betsy Van der Veer Martens
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031325303
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keywords In and Out of Context written by Betsy Van der Veer Martens and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-03 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the rich history of the keyword from its earliest manifestations (long before it appeared anywhere in Google Trends or library cataloging textbooks) in order to illustrate its implicit and explicit mediation of human cognition and communication processes. The author covers the concept of the keyword from its deictic origins in primate and proto-speech communities, through its development within oral traditions, to its initial appearances in numerous graphical forms and its workings over time within a variety of indexing traditions and technologies. The book follows the history all the way to its role in search engine optimization and social media strategies and its potential as an element in the slowly emerging semantic web, as well as in multiple voice search applications. The author synthesizes different perspectives on the significance of this often-invisible intermediary, both in and out of the library and information science context, helping readers to understand how it has come to be so embedded in our daily life. This book: Provides a thorough history of the keyword, from primate and proto-speech communities to current times Explains how the concept of the keyword relates to human cognition and communication processes Highlights the applications of the keyword, both in and out of the library and information science context

Author : Seth Rudy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137411546
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain written by Seth Rudy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British Enlightenment.