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Headed home. Thanks so much for a great few days at #TOCCON So nice seeing everyone. Well done @KatMeyer & @jwikert

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RT @stephenbetts: "In 15 years 90% of news [text] reports will be automatically generated" Scale Through Automation talk at #toccon

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Interesting to reflect on difference between reporting today & the Weegee exhibit at Int'l Center for Photography around corner from #TOCcon

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The AI software behind automated content creation is quite interesting. It's output is descriptive not qualitative, nor insightful #toccon

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+1 RT @ScottEsposito: really not looking forward to the day the internet is 100% scraped and repurposed content #toccon

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University #libraries taking a smaller %-age of overall univ budgets & on downward spiral since 1984 @scholarlykitchn http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012...

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RT @StatSheet: Our CEO and Founder @RobbieAllen is panelist at O'Reilly Tools of Change Conf #toccon in NYC Good Luck! http://www.toccon.com/toc2012...

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So does the creation of machine-generated content really add to understanding? Is it just adding to the background noise? #toccon

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RT @wolfmatthewj: The notion machines can replace day-to-day sports & financial reporting is both really cool ... and really banal #toccon

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Kristian Hammond, Narrative Science is first speaker at #toccon - Spin off of tech from Northwestern U. http://www.narrativescience.com

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An interesting perspective on content creation - Scaling content development through automation session - #toccon

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RT @gluejar: #toccon startups panel. My opinion: unglue.it will be the most important ebook startup of 2012. #biased =>Nice, Eric!

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The International Standard Text Code (ISTC) identifies the text string of a book #metadataisthething #toccon

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RT @BeatBarblan: #toccon @MetadataIsNotAThing - Is the ISTC a potential "work identifier?" BISG starting meetings to look into this

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One challenge for identifying works is that defining what is a "work" is varies for publishers, for distributors, or for libraries. #toccon

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RT @rosencrantz: .@ljndawson When selling digitally, BISAC is too general for real categorization. #toccon YES!!!

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Sub-book level metadata is another area that needs to be described and tagged in a way that makes sense #toccon @ljndawson

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RT @BeatBarblan: #toccon @MetadataIsNotAThing - Part of the (metadata) solution requires making everybody accountable @ljndawson

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The only thing we haven't developed standards for are SEO tagging #toccon => Really, not so sure about that...

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RT @BeatBarblan #toccon @MetadataIsNotAThing Our ultimate job (publishers) is to get as many books in to as many readers' hands as possible

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Go @ljndawson preaching about the need for better metadata and communication of information about books #toccon

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Interesting thought: What would Andrew Carnegie say about #ebooks in libraries? #toccon

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Libraries are looking for a more robust ebook platform. and for competition in providers #ebooks #toccon

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. @naypinya "I work at a slightly weird - or maybe more than slightly weird - library" @internetarchive #toccon => But a great one!

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Libraries have many carrots to provide publishers "Reading is the experience that publishers sell. It's not selling books" #toccon

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Until the data is available where libraries can point to the value of providing #ebooks to patrons, pubs unlikely to budge on access #toccon

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RT @younglibrarian: #toccon #libraries circ stats can we anonymize it in order to share? =>Yes #NISO Working on this as part of MESUR proj

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Libraries could be a place where price point discrimination can take place based on hold times. Can a user wait 3 months for a copy? #toccon

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RT @Porter_Anderson: #TOCcon @ToC Julie Sandorf: "#Libraries could very well become the new Barnes and Noble front window."

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Interesting question about the use of libraries and what trade off there is on sales. There needs to be more research on this topic #toccon

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