【毒】版 To Google or to wiki--No, to OBO!
2010年5月26日
カテゴリ : 多読, 未分類
タグ: tadoku
The New Yorker という雑誌のサイトで記事を見て興奮して書いたので、
ちょっと英語のコラム風にむずかしく書いてしまいました。
それで、毒・・・
Internet search has been an established way of life all over the world in the 21st century--at least in my household, where my wife is the chief searcher for this particular partnership.
But, is it quick? Is it reliable? Is it accurate? Both Google search and wiki can be tricky oftentimes. Oxford University Press of Oxford Reading Tree-fame has come up with an authentic-sounding and seemingly extremely expensive way to the trilemma...
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Google is quick and comprehensive, but sorting out for what you are really looking for? Forget it.
Wiki is sometimes quick and fairly comprehensive, but is it reliable? No way to know.
Oxford University has launched a tremendously ambitious project called Oxford Bibliography Online or OBO, to rectify the said trilemma my wife encounters every day.
I learned about the project in a blog-like ariticle on the New Yorker magazine website: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/05/the-very-human-appeal-of-oxford-bibliographies-online.html
I read the article and got quite excited, so much so that I started to write my first-ever blog article in English.
The hitch? Er, yeah, there IS a hitch, but what do you expect?
Nothing comes free and the problem with the authenticity, realibility and accuracy that OBO can offer is--only educational and research institutions like schools, universities and libraries can subscribe to it, and at a hefty fee, it seems...
Well let's emulate OUP's project in Tadoku-mura on the subject of tadoku for free with a lot of help from YOU. I'm a hundred percent convinced that we can pull it off.
The hitch? Err, yeah, the hitch... The leadership?
