Kan vi lita på bibliotekens "supersök"? - Biblist

5 Jun 2021

      Är dom skapade av bibliotekarier för bibliotek. Nej. Det är amerikanska
kommersiella produkter.

Från abstrakt av en stängd artikel

http://works.bepress.com/mreidsma/5/

The rise of Google and its integration into nearly every aspect of our
lives has pushed libraries to adopt similar "Google-like" search tools,
called discovery systems. Because these tools are provided by libraries and
search scholarly materials rather than the open web, we often assume they
are more "accurate" or "reliable" than their general-purpose peers
like
Google or Bing. But discovery systems are still software written by people
with prejudices and biases, library software vendors are subject to strong
commercial pressures that are often hidden behind diffuse
collection-development contracts and layers of administration, and they
struggle to integrate content from thousands of different vendors and their
collective disregard for consistent metadata.

Library discovery systems struggle with accuracy, relevance, and human
biases, and these shortcomings have the potential to shape the academic
research and worldviews of the students and faculty who rely on them. While
human bias, commercial interests, and problematic metadata have long
affected researchers' access to information, algorithms in library
discovery systems increase the scale of the negative effects on users,
while libraries continue to promote their "objective" and "neutral"
search
tools.

Jan

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Jan Szczepański
F.d Förste bibliotekarie och chef för f.d Avdelningen för humaniora,
vid f.d. Centralbiblioteket, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek
E-post: Jan.Szczepanski63 at gmail.com