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Rankings, Reductionism, And Responsibility , Frank Pasquale
Rankings, Reductionism, And Responsibility , Frank Pasquale
Frank A. Pasquale
After discussing how search engines operate in Part I below, and setting forth a normative basis for regulation of their results in Part II, this piece proposes (in Part III) some minor, non-intrusive legal remedies for those who claim that they are harmed by search engine results. Such harms include unwanted high-ranking results relating to them, or exclusion from a page they claim it is their “due” to appear on. In the first case (deemed “inclusion harm”), I propose a right not to suppress the results, but merely to add an asterisk to the hyperlink directing web users to them, …
Big Opportunities In Access To “Small Science” Data, Harlan Onsrud, James Campbell
Big Opportunities In Access To “Small Science” Data, Harlan Onsrud, James Campbell
Harlan J Onsrud
A distributed infrastructure that would enable those who wish to do so to contribute their scientific or technical data to a universal digital commons could allow such data to be more readily preserved and accessible among disciplinary domains. Five critical issues that must be addressed in developing an efficient and effective data commons infrastructure are described. We conclude that creation of a distributed infrastructure meeting the critical criteria and deployable throughout the networked university library community is practically achievable.