http://arlisnap.org/2008/07/23/thinking-about-how-we-label-images/ Art Library Students & New ARLIS Professionals Wed, 23 May 2012 21:08:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://arlisnap.org/2008/07/23/thinking-about-how-we-label-images/#comment-25383 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:32:03 +0000 http://abcs.wordpress.com/?p=1062#comment-25383 Here is a related issue — one cataloger’s classification of gay and lesbian literature has big implications @ amazon.com:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/technology/internet/14amazon.html
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“Amazon managers found that an employee who happened to work in France had filled out a field incorrectly and more than 50,000 items got flipped over to be flagged as “adult,” the source said. (Technically, the flag for adult content was flipped from ‘false’ to ‘true.’)”
http://blog.seattlepi.com/amazon/archives/166384.asp

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