Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier	question
33460	( excerpt from his short essay"The World Wide Web: A very short personal history", 1998) 2005> Smartphones or ebook readers?
33460	Can ebook readers like Sony Reader and Kindle really compete with cellphones and smartphones?
33460	How valuable will it be?
33460	Improbable?
33460	Or is there a market for both smartphones and ebook readers?
33460	Utopian?
11077	Anyone with a press could run one off, subbing in any apocryphal text he wanted-- and who knew how accurate that translation was?
11077	But take a closer look at that damning passage:[ PULL- QUOTE]> Download it for free from Corey''s site, read the first> page You see that?
11077	Is this the end of the world?
11077	She types 70 words per minute, and loves to show off grandsonular email to her pals around the pool at her Florida retirement condo)?
11077	So, are bookwarez in violation of copyright law?
11077	There was no incense, no altar boys, and who( apart from the priesthood) knew that reading was so friggin''hard on the eyes?
11077	Viewing the book as a"practice"instead of an object is a pretty radical notion, and it begs the question: just what the hell is a book?
11077	Why did Napster captivate so many of us?
53	2) Partly derivative from that, but obviously very dangerous to LC as host, do you see a role for the Library of Congress in all this?
53	3) How does one make the data available?
53	And, if so, what are they and who might take them?
53	Archival storage, use copies, browsing copies-- ought an attempt to set standards even be made?
53	But how much quality can we afford to lose?
53	But where, ERWAY inquired, does one stop including things that are available with Internet, for instance, in one''s local catalogue?
53	But who maintains that register?, he asked.
53	CONTENT IN A NEW FORM: WHO WILL USE IT AND WHAT WILL THEY DO?
53	Can a distinction be drawn between potential users in setting standards for reproduction?
53	Can it be accessed and viewed from other applications?
53	Can many of the hurdles to using electronic information that some publishers have imposed upon databases be eliminated?
53	Can one produce retrieval software advanced enough for the postdoctoral linguist, yet accessible enough for unattended general use?
53	Can the rights of a database be protected?
53	Content in a New Form: Who Will Use It and What Will They Do?
53	Content in a New Form: Who Will Use It and What Will They Do?
53	Deciding whether or not to incorporate a normative encoding structure into the databases?
53	Deliver as CD- ROM, magnetic tape, or both?
53	Did those present constitute a group with sufficient common interests to propose a next step or next steps, and if so, what might those be?
53	Do we take pictures of it and perform OCR on it later?
53	Does one attempt to eliminate the use of operators where possible?
53	Does one use automated processes?
53	Finally, how does one make the data available?
53	How accurate does full text have to be in order to be useful?
53	How are basic internal structures of documents, such as pagination, made accessible to the reader?
53	How are the image documents physically presented on the screen to the reader?
53	How can it be made available?
53	How can quality control best be integrated into digitizing work flow that includes document indexing and storage?
53	How closely is the multimedia document tied to the software for viewing it?
53	How do different users react to imperfect text?
53	How do we pull those three together?
53	How does LC keep track of the appropriate computers, software, and media?
53	How does the emergence of national and international education networks affect the use and viability of research projects requiring high investment?
53	How does variation in the quality of microfilm, particularly in film produced to preservation standards, affect the quality of the digital images?
53	How good must the archival standard be?
53	How much are we prepared to pay to capture absolute fidelity?
53	How should it be delivered?
53	How will it give people access to it?
53	How will that be done?
53	How would she deposit OJCCT for copyright?, she asked, because the journal will exist in the mainframe at OCLC and people will be able to access it.
53	If SGML, then the TEI?
53	If one is selected, should it be SGML?
53	If storage no longer poses such an impediment, what do we need to consider in building digitally stored multi- user databases of visual materials?
53	In the analog world of photocopies and microfilm, the issue of fidelity to the original becomes paramount, as do issues of"Whose fidelity?"
53	Is it important to obtain very high- quality images and text, etc.?
53	Is it necessary to do that?
53	Is there a"group"here?
53	MYLONAS framed the issues in a series of questions: How do we acquire machine- readable text?
53	Re fair and liberal networking policies, what are the risks to an electronic publisher?
53	Re the issue of OCR versus rekeying, HOOTON posed several questions: How does one get text into computer- readable form?
53	Should it be SGML?
53	Should one convert Migne?
53	Should one protect the rights of a database?
53	Should one try?
53	Should the database be encoded?
53	Since this is a transitional medium, why even bother to create software to run on a CD- ROM?
53	The conversion of PLD has evoked numerous unanticipated questions: How will information be used?
53	The encoding of the database was also a hard- fought issue: Did the database need to be encoded?
53	Thus, the question becomes, What is the most useful representation of text for a serious work?
53	To be sure, one needs to know that something was italicized, but how can one get from one to the other?
53	Transition period: How long and what to do?
53	WHO ARE THE USERS AND WHAT DO THEY DO?
53	Were there normative structures for encoding humanist texts?
53	What about CD- ROM?
53	What about networking?
53	What about the TEI-- will it last, will it prove useful?
53	What about the images?
53	What are the trade- offs between vastly enhanced access, degrees of fidelity, and costs?
53	What conventions are necessary to identify a document uniquely for storage and retrieval?
53	What factors affect OCR accuracy?
53	What kinds of things do users do with AM?
53	What should the Library of Congress do next, if anything?
53	What should the group do next, if anything?
53	What topics were omitted or given short shrift that anyone would like to talk about now?
53	Where is the database of record for storing bibliographic information about the image document?
53	Will the Library mount it?
53	and 2) How can one deliver a sufficiently robust set of information in an accessible format in a reasonable amount of time?
53	and"Whose original?"