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by Lyle Johnson.
Original Post: The Smell of Libraries
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Leo Sauermann has posted a nice, short essay about the social component of visiting a "brick-and-mortar" library that's missing from our current conceptions of the Semantic Web:
"For thousands of years we had to walk [to the library] to get to the information. This means, you meet people there, that search for the same stuff as you do. These people are interested in the same stuff as you. You may