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Article #7Re: How do we use a huge library?
From: Adrian Pepper
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:13
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:13
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In article <1992Jul21.190629.17886@access.usask.ca> choy@skorpio.usask.ca writes: > >Suppose that a computer system generates tons of useful information >and plunks it into a public library. Further suppose that the >information is in pretty raw form; the uses for this information are >not demonstrated by far. One of the bottlenecks in showing how >information to be used is that you tend to say "this piece of >data can be used for bloody well everything". Determining the >uses for the information may be a much greater task than discovering >the information itself. How can this information be organized so >that people can find and use a lot of it? > >Henry Choy >choy@cs.usask.ca You are merely talking about the information explosion, and the difference between information and data. I used to think we should refer to the "data explosion", until I realized that a concise illustration of the difference between information and data is to say "data is what is left over after information explodes". Adrian.
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Newsgroups: soc.libraries.talk Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!torn!watserv1!watmath!arpepper From: arpepper@math.waterloo.edu (Adrian Pepper) Subject: Re: How do we use a huge library? Message-ID: <1992Jul22.161323.10161@math.waterloo.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo Math Faculty Computing Facility, Ontario, Canada. References: <1992Jul21.190629.17886@access.usask.ca> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:13:23 GMT Lines: 22