[Sigia-l] OT: Library Thing

[Eric Scheid]

On 29/9/05 8:33 AM, "Alexander Johannesen" <alexander.johannesen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'd have to say 'no', to tell the truth; I've worked so much with a)
> librarians cataloging things, b) normal people tagging things, and c)
> machines indexing things, and even if I'd liked a) and / or b) to win,
> c) beats them every time because they're cheaper. Nothing beats cheap,
> it looks like.

Depends a bit on the things being categorised. I'm yet to see a machine do a
good job of applying subject/depiction meta-data to images, moving or not.

e.