WHOS GONNA PAY THE PIPER FOR FREE ONLINE DATABASES

Authors
JACSO P
Citation
P. Jacso, WHOS GONNA PAY THE PIPER FOR FREE ONLINE DATABASES, Database, 19(3), 1996, pp. 8-9
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Information Science & Library Science","Information Science & Library Science","Computer Critical Rewiews
Journal title
Database → ACNP
ISSN journal
01624105
Volume
19
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
8 - 9
Database
ISI
SICI code
0162-4105(1996)19:3<8:WGPTPF>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
The feature article in this issue about multimedia music databases (p. 14) suggests that the free browsing and sampling approach to well-str uctured, content-rich, genuine databases may represent a model and a t rend for others in our industry to follow. You may feel that this free -for-all attitude will be short-lived, and just a honeymoon behavior, and you may as well wonder who is going to pay the piper in the long r un?