Singh, Sanjay Kumar; Deka, Prasanta Kumar(INFLIBNET Center, February 28, 2008)
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Abstract:
The enormous growth of the web, starting from zero to everything in the last decade, has forced us
to believe in the impossible again. It might be the long-heralded great library of all knowledge really
being within our grip? Today we need a building about the size of a small-town library to house 50
petabytes. With the advancement of tomorrow’s technology, it will fit into our iPod or may be some
new device, which can store large amount of data. When that happens, the library of all libraries will
ride in our purse or every individual’s pocket. If it doesn’t plug directly into our brain with thin white
cords… Converting inked letters into electronic dots that can be read on a screen is simply the first
essential step in creating this new library. The real magic will come in the second act, as each word
in each book is cross-linked, clustered, cited, extracted, indexed, analyzed, annotated, remixed,
reassembled and woven deeper into the culture than ever before. In the new world of books, every
bit informs another; every page reads all the other pages… This paper mainly discusses about the
long tail as an emerging technology for libraries in the network environme