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arnie Grossblatt

Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - 1 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • that's what you'll get.
    • arnie Grossblatt
      arnie Grossblatt on 09 Sep 10
       
      and that's what you deserve.
  • you need reliable metadata about dates and categories, which is why it's so disappointing that the book search's metadata are a train wreck: a mishmash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.
  • Here, too, Google has blamed the errors on the libraries and publishers who provided the books. But the libraries can't be responsible for books mislabeled as Health and Fitness and Antiques and Collectibles, for the simple reason that those categories are drawn from the Book Industry Standards and Communications codes, which are used by the publishers to tell booksellers where to put books on the shelves, not from any of the classification systems used by libraries.
  • arnie Grossblatt on 09 Sep 10
     
    Powerful criticism of GBS and its mishandling of metadata.
Kristen Iovino

Learning Resource Metadata Initiative | (LRMI) - 0 views

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shared by Kristen Iovino on 28 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Kristen Iovino on 28 Nov 11
     
    LRMI effort to establish metadata standards for educational publishers.
arnie Grossblatt

Getting Google to notice your ebook - 0 views

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publishers ebooks Google metadata ONIX SEO

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 20 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • but Google eBookstore suddenly gives booksellers a reason to at least wade into SEO.
  • But what about new books and ebooks? How does Google determine which new titles, and the more than 15 million books that have been scanned, float to the top of its search results pages: in the web search box and in the ebookstore. The challenge, for Gray and other Google engineers on the Books project, is that the best known component of Google's algorithm for determining the the value of a web resource -- the number of links to it by others -- does not apply to books and ebooks. Although it is possible to link to a selection in certain books on Google Books (here's a hyperlink into the aforementioned Galbraith title) people don't generally create links to the contents of a book or ebook. So linking is not a reliable indicator of quality.
  • One strategy that Google employs is to tap into the book industry's "rich tradition of metadata.
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  • Google also looks at what Gray referred to as "market signals:" how often a book has been reprinted, web searches, recent book sales, the number of libraries that hold the book, etc.
  • 2. Create quality content outside the book
  • 1. Use descriptive titles and chapter headings
  • 3 best practices for getting Google to notice your book
  • 3. Book covers matter
  • arnie Grossblatt on 20 Dec 10
     
    With the opening of the Google Bookstore, it's time for publishers to start thinking about search engine optimization (SEO)
arnie Grossblatt

Books of the world. Stand up and be counted! - 0 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 07 Aug 10 - Cached
  • arnie Grossblatt on 07 Aug 10
     
    Google counts the number of books in the world, and along the way has to decide what counts as a book.
arnie Grossblatt

thedigitalist.net » Skills in the Digital Era part two - 0 views

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shared by arnie Grossblatt on 02 Oct 08 - Cached
  • in my view there is no need for a digital editor as such in a trade publishing house, rather an editor who understands the digital world:
  • it’s marketing that will have to continue to change the most to find new readers and new ways of reaching readers.
  • Writing that uses new media by incorporating visuals, sound, movies and so on in different delivery platforms such as the new Sony Reader, Alternate Reality Games mixing narrative and interaction by readers and contributors, self-published material, collaborative wikinovels and other kinds of informal, or extra-formal creativity, are exactly the kind of material that a traditional trade publishing house such as Pan Macmillan, however innovative, finds it very difficult to use, or even acknowledge, in a publishing process, and it’s unlikely to be seriously practical in the short term, which means until someone can think of a way to make money out of it, not least because digital projects are typically seen by customers and authors as free or very low-cost, when in fact they’re often more expensive than traditional ones because of the high set-up and development costs
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  • two key issues: accuracy of conversion, which we set at 99.999999%, instead of some competitors’ 99.95%, and attending to the reader experience by providing accurate and appropriate metadata, which is one of the points I want to illustrate later on to show why I believe editors need new knowledge not new skills
  • What it needs to do instead is create a new post-publishing process, a sort of après-lit, which makes clever and effective use of reader involvement through websites and with social-networking tools, but that is familiar Web 2.0 material and outside the scope of this answer.
  • How much is digital going to change the way I work?’
  • arnie Grossblatt on 02 Oct 08
     
    One editor's take what endures and what changes for publishers and editors in the digital world.
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