The bad and the good - managing the virtual world

Published on 2010-06-07
 

Now and then you try all the fantastic possibilities on the net. Anything new to explore? Things you didn´t find last time could magically pop up the next. I do this quite often to see changes in service levels, new search facilities and so on. Haven´t tried Google Books for a time i gave it a go the other day and naturally (?!) I searched for something I was involved in. A report published under it´s title "En gång invandrare, alltid invandrare?". There is no author on the title page. I decided it to be that way, but I worked on it and wrote it all under the beautiful mentorship of my then boss Tove Persson and with the support of my collegue back then Barbro Roos (and with the help of a lot of other people too of course). Well, imagine my surprise when the report was in Google Books but with an author! I know that this person wrote a lengthy and mostly very positive review. She was, though, not at all involved in the project. Irritating, isn´t it!

The "definitive" critical blog on Google Books metadata; http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1701 .

Now to the positive. Having a Gmail account on the computer i was working on I was automatically logged in to Google Books as a confirmed user. I used this to write a "review" where I commented on the wrong metadata. This worked smoothly and fine.  A good lesson on "Single Sign On" possibilities. Whatever we think of Google things like this enhances the internet experience. Solutions like this should be and is on it´s way in to our products (for example, NemLogin, the danish variety of the international SAML 2.0 standard is now part of the Arena product).

Anyway, should I sue Google Books? :). Some do http://www.pcworld.com/article/197618/woman_sues_google_for_bad_directions.html

 
Written by: Boris Ukotic Zetterlund
Categories: google books sso
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