Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 437.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 09:05:19 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Compilation of Web Characterizations
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 27, 2000
Summary of Recent Reports Measuring the Web
OCLC Web Characterization Project
<<http://wcp.oclc.org/>http://wcp.oclc.org/>
BrightPlanet's Report on the "Deep Web"
<http://www.completeplanet.com/Tutorials/DeepWeb/index.asp>http://www.completeplanet.com/Tutorials/DeepWeb/index.asp
UC Berkeley Project: "How Much Information?"
<http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/>http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/
Pfeiffer Report: Emerging Trends & Technologies
<http://www.pfeifferreport.com/trends/ett_online.html>http://www.pfeifferreport.com/trends/ett_online.html
A good compilation by Ann Okerson of recent reports characterising the
state of online activity (with some interspersed comments of my own).
David Green
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>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:47:36 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>
>To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
>>
>Recently in the news, some reports regarding the size and future of online
>information:
1. Latest report from the OCLC Office of Research Web Characterization
project:
<http://www.oclc.org/oclc/press/20001016a.htm>http://www.oclc.org/oclc/press/20001016a.htm
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2. Report on the "Deep Web" from BrightPlanet:
Using its own technology to find material within searchable databases, 95%
open and free to the public, BrightPlanet's discoveries include:
* Public information on the deep Web is currently 400 to 550 times larger
than the commonly defined World Wide Web
* The deep Web contains 7,500 terabytes of information, compared to 19
terabytes of information in the surface Web
* The deep Web contains nearly 550 billion individual documents compared to
the 1 billion of the surface Web
<http://www.completeplanet.com/Tutorials/DeepWeb/index.asp>http://www.completeplanet.com/Tutorials/DeepWeb/index.asp
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3. Report from the UC Berkeley School of Information Management &
Systems: "How Much Information?"
"This study is an attempt to measure how much information is produced in
the world each year. We look at several media and estimate yearly
production, accumulated stock, rates of growth, and other variables of
interest."
<http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/>http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/
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4. And now for something completely different: The Pfeiffer Report
suggests that most online publications may be very short-lived in deed.
Online content doesn't make money (for the most part). The report
suggests that the Internet is not a replacement for current information
delivery models, but rather than extension of them.
<http://www.pfeifferreport.com/trends/ett_online.html>http://www.pfeifferreport.com/trends/ett_online.html
Ann Okerson, liblicense-l moderator
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