Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 270.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 07:17:02 +0100
From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: noisy vs signalful
> From: Jennifer De Beer <jennifer_de_beer@yahoo.com>
> [snip]
> The concept 'digital library' implies networked
> access, no? And that the users are not all located in
> the same physical space. Hence the noisy library is
> not the traditional physical space / building, but
> rather a cyber one. In the latter instance noisiness
> is good (as long as the infrastructure can handle the
> load/hit rate)
In which case, could we not suggest that the good, effective, efficient
cyber library is "signal full" rather than noisy --- the transactions are
themselves a source of information that can help guide the management of
the infrastructure...
one researcher's noise -- another's signal
--
Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance
Member of the Evelyn Letters Project
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